1 Kings 3:16
1 Kings chapter 3 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Context
v.15And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
v.16This passage
v.17And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
- Joshua 2:1
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Numbers 27:2
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,
- Leviticus 19:29
Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
- Exodus 18:16
when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.