1 Kings 3:20
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.
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- Job 24:13-17 : 13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths. 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light. 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
- Ps 139:11 : 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
- Matt 13:25 : 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
- John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
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- 1 Kgs 3:21-233 verses90%
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.'"
- 1 Kgs 3:17-193 verses89%
17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
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.
- 1 Kgs 17:17-204 verses78%
17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.
18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
19 He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"
- 2 Kgs 4:16-216 verses75%
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.
18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
- 1 Kgs 3:25-273 verses75%
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."
- 2 Sam 14:6-72 verses74%
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."
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16 Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
- 2 Kgs 6:28-292 verses73%
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.'
29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."
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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.
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2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
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14 She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."
- 2 Kgs 4:30-323 verses71%
30 The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.
31 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."
32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
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22 He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
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8 It happened at midnight, that the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.
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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."
- 2 Kgs 4:36-372 verses70%
36 He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."
37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
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16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
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18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,
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3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
- 1 Sam 1:26-272 verses69%
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.
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20 "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are dead."
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16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
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18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"
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56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."