1 Kings 3:23
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.'"
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- 1 Kgs 3:20-223 verses94%
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.
- 1 Kgs 3:24-274 verses83%
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."
- 2 Kgs 6:28-292 verses74%
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."
- 2 Sam 14:5-73 verses74%
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."
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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.
- 2 Sam 14:10-123 verses71%
10 The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."
11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."
12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."
- 1 Kgs 20:39-402 verses70%
39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'
40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it."
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35 Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons are coming! It is as your servant said."
- 2 Sam 14:18-192 verses69%
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;
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2 "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!
- 2 Kgs 8:5-62 verses69%
5 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."
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23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives."
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56 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"
- 1 Kgs 1:12-132 verses69%
12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
13 Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'
- 1 Kgs 1:20-212 verses69%
20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
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27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
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30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;
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11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
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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.
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23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
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24 Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?'
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51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"
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19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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15 He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
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15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
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19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."
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3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
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33 Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead."
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23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
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16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."
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27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
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30 It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, "Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left!"