1 Kings 3:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and she riseth in the middle of the night, and taketh my son from beside me -- and thy handmaid is asleep -- and layeth it in her bosom, and her dead son she hath laid in my bosom;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. 14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. 15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. 16 He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. 17 When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
  • Ps 139:11 : 11 And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,
  • John 3:20 : 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

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    21and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.'

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    23And the king saith, `This `one' saith, This `is' my son, the living, and thy son `is' the dead; and that `one' saith, Nay, but thy son `is' the dead, and my son the living.'

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    17and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;

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