1 Kings 3:20
And she arose at midnight , and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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Gill's Exposition
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,.... As she used to do:
behold, it was dead; her own child, as she thought at first:
but when I had considered it in the morning; it was…
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
and laid it in her bosom It is not easy to account for the action of this woman. We need not however suppose her to have been possessed of very fine feelings, as indeed her after-behaviour shews. But…