1 Kings 3:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while your handmaid slept and laid him in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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.

Common English Bible

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him on her chest and laid her dead son on mine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And rising up in the silent depths of the night, she took my son from my side, while I, your handmaid, was sleeping, and she set him in her bosom. Then she placed her dead son in my bosom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I thy handmaid was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:20 Cross References

1 Kings 3:19

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

1 Kings 3:21

And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

Psalm 139:11

If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

Matthew 13:25

but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

John 3:20

For every one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.