1 Kings 3:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 1 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then two women who had become mothers out of wedlock came and stood before the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Sometime later, two prostitutes came and stood before the king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.

1 Kings 3:16 Cross References

1 Kings 3:15

0 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 3:17

2 And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary she said: Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before the king.

Exodus 18:13

6 And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.

Exodus 18:16

9 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:

Proverbs 25:2

Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

Leviticus 19:29

4 But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 27:2

And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:

Deuteronomy 23:17

2 If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.

Joshua 2:1

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.

Judges 11:1

And they said to him: Come thou and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.