📖WEB · 1 Kings 3:18
What does 1 Kings 3:18 mean?
"The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house."
— 1 Kings 3:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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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