Lièwángjìshang 3:20

20 Tā bàn yè qǐlai , chèn wǒ shuì zhe , cóng wǒ pángbiān bǎ wǒde háizi bào qù , fàng zaì tā huái lǐ , jiāng tāde sǐ háizi fàng zaì wǒ huái lǐ .

Lièwángjìshang 3:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 3:20

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?

Lièwángjìshang 3:20 In-Context

18 Wǒ shēng háizi hòu dì sān rì , zhè fùrén yĕ shēng le háizi . wǒmen shì tóng zhù de , chúle wǒmen èr rén zhī waì , fáng zhōng zaì méiyǒu biérén .

19 Yè jiān , zhè fùrén shuì zhe de shíhou , yē sǐ le tāde háizi .

20 Tā bàn yè qǐlai , chèn wǒ shuì zhe , cóng wǒ pángbiān bǎ wǒde háizi bào qù , fàng zaì tā huái lǐ , jiāng tāde sǐ háizi fàng zaì wǒ huái lǐ .

21 Tiān yào liàng de shíhou , wǒ qǐlai yào gĕi wǒde háizi chī nǎi , búliào , háizi sǐ le . jízhì tiān liàng , wǒ xì xì dì chákàn , bú shì wǒ suǒ shēng de háizi .

22 Nà fùrén shuō , bù rán , huó háizi shì wǒde , sǐ háizi shì nǐde . zhè fùrén shuō , bù rán , sǐ háizi shì nǐde , huó háizi shì wǒde . tāmen zaì wáng miànqián rúcǐ zhēnglùn .