1 Mga Hari 3:20

Filipino Tagalog Bible

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Filipino Cebuano Bible
20 Ug siya mibangon sa tungang gabii, ug iyang gikuha ang akong anak gikan sa akong luyo, samtang ang imong ulipon nga babaye nagkatulog, ug gibutang kini sa iyang sabakan, ug gibutang ang iyang patay nga bata sa akong sabakan.

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?