1 Kings 3:21

New International Reader's Version

The next morning, I got up to nurse my son. But he was dead! I looked at him closely in the morning light. And I saw that it wasn’t my baby.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:7

She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would breast-feed children? But I’ve had a son by him when he is old.”

1 Kings 3:20

So she got up in the middle of the night. She took my son from my side while I was asleep. She put him by her breast. Then she put her dead son by my breast.

1 Kings 3:22

The other woman said, “No! The living baby is my son. The dead one belongs to you.” But the first woman said, “No! The dead baby is yours. The living one belongs to me.” So they argued in front of the king.

1 Samuel 1:23

Her husband Elkanah told her, “Do what you think is best. Stay here at home until Samuel doesn’t need you to breast-feed him anymore. May the Lord make his promise to you come true.” So Hannah stayed home. She breast-fed her son until he didn’t need her milk anymore.