1 Kings 3:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Kings 3:20 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
  2. Job 24:17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
  3. Psalms 139:11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
  4. Matthew 13:25But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
  5. John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

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