1 Kings 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:20 : 20 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:18-27
    10 verses
    90%

    18 It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

    19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

    20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore."

    22 The other woman said, "No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son." This said, "No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.

    23 Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;' and the other says, 'No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"

    24 The king said, "Get me a sword." They brought a sword before the king.

    25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

    26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."

    27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

  • 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

  • Ezek 23:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

  • 71%

    26 She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

    27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  • 27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • 12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

  • 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."

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    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

    17 Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

    18 Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

    19 The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 2 Sam 14:5-8
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    69%

    5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

    6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

    8 The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

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    16 He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

    17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

  • 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

  • 17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

  • 28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

  • 3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

  • 2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

  • 16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

  • 3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from.

  • 2 "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

  • 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

  • 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son." But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.

  • 18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

  • 16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

  • 17 She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

  • 16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

  • 17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

  • 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • 3 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

  • 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.