1 Kings 3:18
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And this woman's child died in the night,.... Whether the same night following the day it was born is not certain;
because she overlaid it; or laid upon it, being heavy through sleep, and not…
An instance is here given of Solomon's wisdom, to show that the grant lately made him had a real effect upon him. The proof is fetched, not from the mysteries of state and the policies of the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
there was no stranger with us Thus the mother of the dead child was able to persist in her false story. The word of one was as good as that of the other.