Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
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Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
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Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
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Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.'
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 1:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”
- 1 Kings 1:17-27 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it. He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant. You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.” Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’ For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’ But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By declaring such things, as may further the same.
By declaring such things, as may further the same.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with…
1Ki 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
Ver. 14. I will come in after thee, and confirm thy words,] {a} Heb., Fill up - that is, say the same, and more. There are some seeming contradictions in Scripture: and though they seem to be as the accusers of Christ, never a one speaking like the other, yet if we understand, we shall find them speaking like Nathan and Bathsheba, both speaking the same things.
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{a} Pollicetur suam operam in praetexenda tela.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,....…
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,.... Before, or by the time she could deliver the above words to him, or such as she should think fit to use, to awaken the king to a concern for the interest of her and her son:
I will also come in after thee; directly into the king's chamber:
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and confirm thy words; as he could very well do, if he was present as a witness of the oath he had made to her, as well as he could confirm the truth of Adonijah's usurpation; nay, could plead the will and promises of God he had formerly notified to him: or, "fill up thy words" (f), make up what might be wanting in her address to him, in her account of things, or in the arguments used by her; he means, that he would second her in her motion in favour of Solomon, and press the king to take some steps for the security of the succession to him. Nathan knew it was the will of God that Solomon should succeed in the kingdom, he had promised it by him, see Sa2 7:12; yet, as a wise and good man, he thought it right to make use of all proper means to attain the end.
(f) "complebo", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "explebo", Ar.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Confirm thy words - “Establish” them, by giving a…
Confirm thy words - “Establish” them, by giving a second testimony. Nathan thinks it best to move David’s affections first through Bath-sheba, before he comes in to discuss the matter as one of state policy, and to take the king’s orders upon it.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Words, and confirm what thou hast said, (Menochius) reminding…
Words, and confirm what thou hast said, (Menochius) reminding the king of God’s express declaration. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. Confirm thy words — Hebrew, as margin, fill…
14. Confirm thy words — Hebrew, as margin, fill up; that is, complete, in the same sense as fulfilling, and thereby confirming a prophecy.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. and confirm thy words] Lit. ‘fill up’ thy…
14. and confirm thy words] Lit. ‘fill up’ thy words. This Nathan could most fitly do because he knew of the expressions of God’s will which had been communicated unto David. Thus he could dwell more fully than Bath-sheba on the king’s previous intentions, and knowing better than she what was going on around Adonijah could assure David that it was no imaginary alarm.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) While thou yet talkest.—The whole history seems to…
(14) While thou yet talkest.—The whole history seems to indicate a growth of royal state and Oriental reverence for the king’s person since the defeat of Absalom, contrasted with the comparative simplicity of intercourse with him in earlier days, and preparatory to the still greater development of majesty and despotism under Solomon. Bath-sheba’s entrance into the bedchamber seems to be looked upon as an intrusion, to be ventured upon only in the humble attitude of a suppliant. Nathan does not presume to approach the king with remonstrance, till the maternal anxiety of Bath-sheba has paved the way. (Comp, in Est_4:10-16, the picture of the still more unapproachable royalty of Persia.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Behold, while thou yet talkest there the original is…
Behold, while thou yet talkest there the original is more graphic, "thou art yet talking and I" with the king, I also win come after thee and confirm marg., "fill up," of. plhrwsw, LXX Still an idiom of the East. Roberts (quoted in the "Biblical Museum") cites many illustrations. The meaning is, not to add to, amplify, but to corroborate. 1Ki_2:27 1Ki_8:15, 24 thy words. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk ver. 6; 15:4. This is the Divine confirmation of David"s words to his son (1Ki_2:3, 1Ki_2:4) and of the son"s description of his father"s piety (ver. 6 supra), then I will lengthen thy days Solomon"s days were not of an unusual length, as he can hardly have been more than sixty (if so much), although called qezi 1Ki_11:41 at the time of his decease. But he had not fulfilled the condition. (1Ki_11:9-12)
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