1 Kings 3:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Then two harlots 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

And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 3:17

The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

Exodus 18:13

On the morrow Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning till evening.

Exodus 18:16

when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God and his decisions.”

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 harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.

Numbers 27:2

And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

Deuteronomy 23:17

“There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.

Joshua 2:1

And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.

Judges 11:1

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.