19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
19 And this woman's H802 child H1121 died H4191 in the night; H3915 because she overlaid H7901 it.
19 And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.
19 And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it,
19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.
19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
19 In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
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Commentary on 1 Kings 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
Solomon's reign looked bloody in the foregoing chapter, but the necessary acts of justice must not be called cruelty; in this chapter it appears with another face. We must not think the worse of God's mercy to his subjects for his judgments on rebels. We have here,
1Ki 3:1-4
We are here told concerning Solomon,
1Ki 3:5-15
We have here an account of a gracious visit which God paid to Solomon, and the communion he had with God in it, which put a greater honour upon Solomon than all the wealth and power of his kingdom did.
1Ki 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 council-board, though there no doubt he excelled, but from the trial and determination of a cause between party and party, which princes, though they devolve them upon their judges, must not think it below them to take cognizance of. Observe,