1 KINGS 3:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 1
“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.”
"And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay upon it." — The first woman alleges: *va-yamut ben-ha-isha ha-zot ba-laylah* (this woman's son died in the night). The cause—*asher shakhvah 'alav* (because she lay upon it)—suggests the child died of *suffocation*, a common danger in ancient practice where mothers shared beds with infants. This accusation sets up the central legal issue: negligent death vs. intentional harm.
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