1 Kings 3:20
Good News Translation
She got up during the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and carried him to her bed; then she put the dead child in my bed.

New Revised Standard Version
She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant slept. She laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.

Contemporary English Version
Then while I was still asleep, she got up and took my son out of my bed. She put him in her bed, then she put her dead baby next to me.

New American Bible
So in the middle of the night she got up and took my son from my side, as your servant was sleeping. Then she laid him in her bosom and laid her dead son in my bosom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.

midnight

Job 24:13-17 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

Psalm 139:11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.

Matthew 13:25 But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

took

1 Kings 3:21 And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.

Context
Solomon Judges Wisely
19And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him. 20And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.21And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.…
Cross References
1 Kings 3:19
And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him.

1 Kings 3:21
And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.

1 Kings 3:19
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