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1 Kings 3:19

1 Kings 3:19
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Kings 3:16-28

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

overlaid it And so smothered it, while both mother and child were asleep.