1 Kings 3:21

Modern English Version

When I rose in the morning to feed my child, behold, it was dead. But when I looked closely in the morning light, behold, I recognized that it was not my son whom I bore.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:7

Also she said, “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 at midnight and took my son from beside me while your servant slept and laid him at her bosom and laid her dead child at my bosom.

1 Kings 3:22

The other woman said, “No, the living is my son, and the dead is your son.” And she said, “No, the dead is your son, and the living is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

1 Samuel 1:23

So Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish His word.” So the woman remained, and nursed her son until she weaned him.