1 Kings 3:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Her bowels

1 John 3:17

Yearned

Psalm 39:3

Give her

Romans 1:31

2 Timothy 3:3

Bible References

Her bowels

Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room to weep.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to Me,
a delightful child?
Whenever I speak against him,
I certainly still think about him.
Therefore, My inner being yearns for him;
I will truly have compassion on him.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
I have had a change of heart;
My compassion is stirred!

For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

Yearned

My heart grew hot within me;
as I mused, a fire burned.
I spoke with my tongue:

Give her

undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,

and unmerciful.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,