1 Kings 3:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:20-22
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    94%

    20She 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.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:24-27
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    83%

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

    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 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
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    74%

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

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-12
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    71%

    10The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.

    11Then said she, 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, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

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

  • 1 Kgs 20:39-40
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    70%

    39As 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, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.

    40As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it.

  • 2 Sam 13:35
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    35Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant said, so it is.

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    69%

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

    19The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • Prov 31:2
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    2"Oh, my son!" Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
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    5It 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.

    6When 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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
    69%

    23Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.

  • 1 Sam 17:56
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 1:12-13
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    69%

    12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

    13Go and get you 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 1:20-21
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    69%

    20You, 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.

    21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

  • Gen 44:27
    68%

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

  • Gen 44:30
    68%

    30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;

  • Luke 15:11
    68%

    11He said, "A certain man had two sons.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16For 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.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    68%

    23Then 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.

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
    68%

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

  • John 4:51
    68%

    51As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
    68%

    15He 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 about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15If 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;

  • 2 Sam 12:19
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    19But 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.

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    67%

    3and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 13:33
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    33Now 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.

  • 2 Sam 12:23
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    23But 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.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
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    27Is 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?

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30It 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.