1 Kings 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Later, two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Kings 3:16 Cross References

1 Kings 3:15

Then Solomon awoke; it had been a dream. He came to Jerusalem, where he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. He offered up burnt offerings and offerings of well-being and provided a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 3:17

The one woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Leviticus 19:29

“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity.

Numbers 27:2

They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,

Deuteronomy 23:17

“None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Judges 11:1

Now Jephthah the Gileadite, the son of a prostitute, was a mighty warrior. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.