1 Kings 3:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it. 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{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} 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 3:21-23
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    21When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.

    22The 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.

    23Then said the king, 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, and my son is the living.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-19
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    17The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

    18It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
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    78%

    17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

    18She 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!

    19He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.

    20He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

  • 2 Kgs 4:16-21
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    75%

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

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

    18When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

    19He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.

    20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.

  • 1 Kgs 3:25-27
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    25The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

    26Then spoke the woman whose the living child was 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.

    27Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7Behold, the whole family is 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 will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Ruth 4:16
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    16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
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    28The 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.

    29So 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 hid her son.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
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    20About 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.

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

  • Ruth 3:14
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    14She 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 4:30-32
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    30The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.

    31Gehazi 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.

    32When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22He 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?

  • Ruth 3:8
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    8It happened at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

  • Exod 1:16
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    16and 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 4:36-37
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    70%

    36He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.

    37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

  • Job 39:16
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    16She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

  • Job 31:18
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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);

  • Jer 20:17
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    17because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

  • Matt 2:14
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    14He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

  • Hos 2:3
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    3Lest 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 1:26-27
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    26She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

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

  • Matt 2:20
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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."

  • 2 Sam 12:16
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    16David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

  • 2 Sam 12:18
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    18It 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 vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!

  • Deut 28:56
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    56The 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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    6She 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."