1 KINGS 3:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“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.”
"And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, it was not the son I had borne.'" — The discovery: *va-'akum ba-boker le-honik et-bni ve-hinne met* (when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead). The phrase *le-honik* (to nurse) invokes the maternal bond—the act of nursing confirms kinship. Yet upon examination—*va-'askit otho ba-boker* (I looked at him closely in the morning)—she realized *it was not the son I had borne* (*ve-hinne lo-beni asher yalidti*). The morning light reveals the deception; the child is identified as *not hers*.
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