Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
- BSB At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
- NKJV Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
- NASB Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
- NLT Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled.
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- Exod 18:16When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
- Judg 11:1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
- Josh 2:1Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
- Num 27:2They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Lev 19:29“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
- Deut 23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Exod 18:13On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
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