1 Kings 3:16

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1 Kings 3:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

15 Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

16 At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

17 One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.

18 On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Leviticus 19:29

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Deuteronomy 23:17

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Judges 11:1

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:16

“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”

Numbers 27:2

the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said,