Parallel Verses
NET Bible
She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
New American Standard Bible
So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in 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.
Holman Bible
She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him at her breast, and she put her dead son in my arms.
International Standard Version
She got up in the middle of the night, took my son from me while your servant was asleep, and laid him to her breast after laying her dead son next to me.
A Conservative Version
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
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.
Amplified
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from [his place] beside me while your maidservant was asleep, and laid him on her bosom, and laid her dead son on my bosom.
Bible in Basic English
And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
Darby Translation
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 son in my bosom.
Julia Smith Translation
And she will rise in the middle of the night and take my son from beside me, and thy servant sleeping; and she will lay him in her bosom and her dead son she laid in my bosom.
King James 2000
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.
Modern King James verseion
And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant was sleeping, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And then she arose at midnight and took my son from my side, while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom, and put her dead child in my bosom.
New Heart English Bible
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
The Emphasized Bible
Then arose she, in the middle of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid was sleeping, and laid it in her own besom, - but, her dead son, laid she in, my, bosom.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
Youngs Literal Translation
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;
Themes
Arbitration » Instances of » The two harlots in the presence of king solomon
Courts of justice » Causes in, were opened by » The complainant
Judge » Kings and other rulers as
Justice » Exemplified » Solomon
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Solomon
Magistrates » Should » Judge wisely
Rulers' » Righteous » Instances of » Solomon » Judgment
Solomon » His wisdom see » In judicial insight
Solomon » Justice of, illustrated in his judgment of the two prostitutes
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 3:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon's Wisdom Tested: The Two Prostitutes
19 This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him. 20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms. 21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby."
Cross References
Job 24:13-17
There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
Psalm 139:11
If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"
Matthew 13:25
But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.