1 Kings 3:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I looked at it closely in the morning, behold, it was not the child that I had borne.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:7

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

1 Kings 3:20

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:22

But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.

1 Samuel 1:23

Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best 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.