1 Re 3:20

La Riveduta Bibbia

Ed essa, alzatasi nel cuor della notte, prese il mio figliuolo d’accanto a me, mentre la tua serva dormiva, e lo pose a giacere sul suo seno, e sul mio seno pose il suo figliuolo morto.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Ella allora si alz nel cuore della notte, prese mio figlio dal mio fianco, mentre la tua serva dormiva, e se lo pose in seno, e sul mio seno pose il suo figlio morto.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed ella s’è levata in mezzo alla notte, ed ha preso il mio figliuolo d’appresso a me, mentre la tua servente dormiva, e se l’ha posto a giacere in seno, e mi ha posto a giacere in seno il suo figliuolo morto.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

midnight: Job 24:13-17, Psalms 139:11, Matthew 13:25, John 3:20

took: 1 Kings 3:21

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she arose at midnight,.... Perceiving what she had done, that she had overlaid her child, and it was dead; either through fear of punishment inflicted on persons thus negligent, or because of the disgrace of it, taking no more care of her child, she made use of the following stratagem:

and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept; this served to puzzle the cause, for how could she know what she did when she was asleep? this she could not prove, it was only conjecture:

and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom; where she found it in the morning; but still what proof was there that it was the other woman's, and not her own, that lay dead in her bosom?