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.’
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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.’
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And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
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And she said unto him: 'My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD thy God unto thy handmaid: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to 1 Kings 1:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 1:13 Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’
- 1 Kings 1:30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”
- Genesis 18:12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- 1 Peter 3:6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 1:17 And she said unto him, My lord,…
1Ki 1:17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
Ver. 17. Shall reign after me.] This was the substance of the promise confirmed by oath.
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And he shall sit upon my throne.] This was the evidence thereof. She allegeth both, doing as Nathan had dictated unto her.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou swarest by the Lord thy God; to whom…
Thou swarest by the Lord thy God; to whom thou art highly obliged, whose name thou justly fearest and honourest; and therefore thou wilt not pollute it by perjury, but make conscience of thy oath.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she said unto him, my lord, thou swarest…
And she said unto him, my lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid,.... Which was a very solemn oath, and binding, and which she puts David in mind of, knowing that so conscientious a man as he was would religiously observe it:
saying, assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and shall sit upon my throne; be his successor in it, and established on it.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. and he shall sit] The pronoun in the…
17. and he shall sit] The pronoun in the original is emphatically expressed.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she said unto him, My Lord, thou swarest…
And she said unto him, My Lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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