1 Kings 3:20

1 Kings chapter 3 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.19And this woman’s child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

v.20This passage

v.21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
Matthew 13:25
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
Job 24:13
These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Psalms 139:11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;