World English Bible
1 Kings 3:19
“This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 3
17
The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
18
It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
19
This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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