Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

New American Standard Bible

Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

King James Version

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Holman Bible

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

International Standard Version

Right about then, two prostitutes approached the king and requested an audience with him.

A Conservative Version

Then two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.

American Standard Version

Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Amplified

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Bible in Basic English

Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

Darby Translation

Then came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

Julia Smith Translation

Then will come two women, harlots, to the king, and they will stand before him.

King James 2000

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him.

Modern King James verseion

Then there came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him.

NET Bible

Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

New Heart English Bible

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

The Emphasized Bible

Then, came there in two unchaste women, unto the king, - and stood before him.

Webster

Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

Youngs Literal Translation

then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

שׁתּים שׁנים 
Sh@nayim 
Usage: 767

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

unto the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

Context Readings

Solomon's Wisdom Tested: The Two Prostitutes

15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.


Cross References

Exodus 18:16

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

Leviticus 19:29

"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Numbers 27:2

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,

Deuteronomy 23:17

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Joshua 2:1

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

Judges 11:1

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

Exodus 18:13

It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

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