1 Kings 1:31
Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
1 Kings 1:31 in other translations
| BSB | Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!” |
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| WEB | Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord King David live forever!” |
| ASV | Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. |
| YLT | And Bath-Sheba boweth--face to the earth--and doth obeisance to the king, and saith, ‘Let my lord, king David, live to the age.' |
| DARBY | And Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. |
| BBE | Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever. |
| Webster | Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. |
What does 1 Kings 1:31 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 1:28-31
28-31. Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba--He renews to her the solemn pledge he had given, in terms of solemnity and impressiveness which show that the aged monarch had roused himself to the duty the emergency called for. 1Ki 1:32-49. Solomon, by David's Appointment, Is Anointed King.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 1:11-31
Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Re 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his…
1 Kings 1:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 1:31
- Daniel 5:10
Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
- Daniel 2:4
Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
- Daniel 3:9
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
- Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
- Daniel 6:6
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Esther 3:2
And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
- Matthew 21:37
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
- 1 Kings 1:25
For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
- 2 Samuel 9:6
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
- Daniel 6:21
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
- Nehemiah 2:3
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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Context
- 1 Kings 1:30
Even as I sware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
- 1 Kings 1:31
Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
- 1 Kings 1:32
And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
1 Kings 1:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces Bath-sheba se inclinó al rey, su rostro á tierra, y haciendo reverencia al rey, dijo: Viva mi señor el rey David para siempre. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Bath-Shéba s’inclina, le visage contre terre, et se prosterna devant le roi, et dit: Que le roi David, mon seigneur, vive à toujours! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da verneigte sich Bathseba mit dem Antlitz zur Erde und beugte sich vor dem König nieder und sprach: Es lebe mein Herr, der König David, ewiglich! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Summissoque Bethsabee in terram vultu, adoravit regem, dicens: Vivat dominus meus David in æternum. |