Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 3:19
And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
19. overlaid it ] And so smothered it, while both mother and child were asleep.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And so smothered it; which she justly conjectures, because there were evidences of that kind of death, but no appearance of any other cause thereof.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And this woman’s child died in the night,…. Whether the same night following the day it was born is not certain;
because she overlaid it; or laid upon it, being heavy through sleep, and not knowing what she did, turned herself upon it, and smothered it; because it had no previous illness, or any marks of any disease it could be thought to die of, and perhaps there might be some of its being overlaid.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Ki 3:19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
Ver. 19. Because she overlaid it. ] And now she hath stolen my child; not that she careth for it, or grieveth for her own, but for fear she should be questioned for smothering her child.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
child = son.
overlaid. One of the ten deaths occasioned by women. See note on Jdg 4:21.