Harlots — Or, victuallers: for the Hebrew words signifies both. Yet that they are unmarried persons, seems probable, both because there is no mention of any husbands, whose office it was, if there were any such, to contest for their wives; and because they lived a solitary life in one house.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 3:16
1 Kings 3:16
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.