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1 Kings 3:20
1 Kings 3:20 is verse 20 of 1 Kings chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
King James Version
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
World English Bible
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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1 Kings 3:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
19 During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
20 So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
21 The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”
22 “No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
Job 24:17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Psalms 139:11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
Matthew 13:25But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
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