1 Kings 3:24

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 86%

    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."

    28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

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    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.'"

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    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."

  • Mark 6:27-28
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    27 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

    28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

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    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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    32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

    33 The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

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    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."

  • 56 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
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    8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

    9 The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

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

    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.

  • 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.'

  • 19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

  • 11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

  • 16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

  • 31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

  • Mark 6:24-25
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    24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

    25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."

  • 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

  • 4 Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present."

  • 21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

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    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?'

  • 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;

  • Matt 14:8-9
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    66%

    8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."

    9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

  • 3 Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

  • 10 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord."

  • 28 Then king David answered, "Call to me Bathsheba." She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

  • 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

  • 24 Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?'