1 Kings 3:27

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Then there came two women that were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶ Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. ¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶ One day two women who were prostitutes came to Solomon. As they stood before him, ¹⁶ Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Thanne twei wymmen hooris camen to the kyng, and stoden bifor hym;

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Reciprocal: Job 39:16 - as Isaiah 49:15 - a woman

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the king answered and said, give her the living child,

and in no wise slay it,.... That is, to her who desired it might not be slain, but rather be given to her who had no right to it:

she [is] the mother thereof; which might be strongly concluded from her compassion for it, her eagerness and earnestness to have its life spared, and from the indifference of the other, yea, from her cruelty and barbarity in moving to have it divided.