Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.