1 Kings 3:21

Good News Translation

The next morning, when I woke up and was going to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. I looked at it more closely and saw that it was not my child.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:7

Then she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

1 Kings 3:20

She got up during the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and carried him to her bed; then she put the dead child in my bed.

1 Kings 3:22

But the other woman said, “No! The living child is mine, and the dead one is yours!” The first woman answered back, “No! The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine!” And so they argued before the king.

1 Samuel 1:23

Elkanah answered, “All right, do whatever you think best; stay at home until you have weaned him. And may the Lord make your promise come true.” So Hannah stayed at home and nursed her child.