1 Kings 3:20
She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
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- Job 24:13-17 : 13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
- Ps 139:11 : 11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
- Matt 13:25 : 25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.
- John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
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- 1 Kgs 3:21-233 verses90%
21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”
22 The other woman said,“No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied,“No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.
23 The king said,“One says,‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says,‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”
- 1 Kgs 3:17-193 verses89%
17 One of the women said,“My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.
19 This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.
- 1 Kgs 17:17-204 verses78%
17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
19 He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
- 2 Kgs 4:16-216 verses75%
16 He said,“About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said,“No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
19 He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”
20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21 She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
- 1 Kgs 3:25-273 verses75%
25 The king then said,“Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”
26 The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”
27 The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”
- 2 Sam 14:6-72 verses74%
6 Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.
7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”
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16 Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver.
- 2 Kgs 6:28-292 verses73%
28 Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’
29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
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20 As she was dying, the women who were there with her said,“Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention.
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2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.
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14 So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”
- 2 Kgs 4:30-323 verses71%
30 The mother of the child said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.
31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him,“The child did not wake up.”
32 When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.
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22 He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.
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8 In the middle of the night he was startled and turned over. Now he saw a woman lying beside him!
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16 “When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
- 2 Kgs 4:36-372 verses70%
36 Elisha called to Gehazi and said,“Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her,“Take your son.”
37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.
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16 She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.
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18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
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17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
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14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.
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3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.
- 1 Sam 1:26-272 verses69%
26 She said,“My lord. Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the LORD.
27 For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him.
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20 saying,“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”
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16 Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.
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18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said,“While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”
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56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
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6 opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”