1 Kings 3:26

Contextual Overview

¹⁶Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then two prostitutes came to 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. ¹⁶Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁶ Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him. ¹⁶Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

Bible Verse Review
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her bowels: Genesis 43:30, Isaiah 49:15, Jeremiah 31:20, Hosea 11:8, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 2:1, 1 John 3:17

yearned: Heb. were hot, Psalms 39:3

give her: Romans 1:31, 2 Timothy 3:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:16 - Let 2 Kings 6:29 - she hath hid Job 39:16 - as Song of Solomon 5:4 - my bowels 2 Corinthians 7:15 - inward affection is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then spake the woman, whose the living child [was], unto the king,.... In haste, and with great vehemency, lest the executioner should at once dispatch it:

(for her bowels yearned upon her son); not being able to bear to see his life taken away:

and she said, O my lord: or, "on me q, my lord"; let the sin, the lie that I have told, be on me, and the punishment of it; she rather chose to be reckoned a liar, and to endure any punishment such an offence deserved, than that her child should be cut asunder:

give her the living child, and in no wise slay it; being willing to part with her interest in it, rather than it should be put to death:

but the other said, let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide [it]; for as she knew it was not her own, she had no affection for it, nor desire to have it; chose rather to be clear of the expense of keeping and nursing it, and would, by its being put to death, be avenged of her adversary, who had brought this cause before the king.

q בי "in me", Montanus; so Abarbinel.