Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
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Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
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And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
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And Bath-sheba said: 'Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.'
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- Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak…
1Ki 2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
Ver. 18. Well; I will speak for thee.] Though Bathsheba were a wise woman, grandchild to Ahithophel, yet she perceived not Adonijah’s drift - viz., to undermine her son Solomon, and to shoulder him out of the throne. Hence she was so facile and forward to gratify him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Bathsheba said, well,.... Very well spoken, the thing…
And Bathsheba said, well,.... Very well spoken, the thing is good and right:
I will speak for thee unto the king; and use her interest with him, not seeing into his design, but pitying an unfortunate man.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Well; I will speak for thee — But…
18. Well; I will speak for thee — But did not Bathsheba perceive the treasonable project hidden under Adonijah’s petition? Probably not in all its consequences. She doubtless had some fear of him, and was anxious as far as possible to conciliate him, for she knew that his hereditary right to the throne had been set aside by Jehovah’s choice of her son Solomon.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. I will speak for thee] Bath-sheba does not…
18. I will speak for thee] Bath-sheba does not seem to have suspected Adonijah’s design, and this simplicity of hers he perhaps hoped to trade upon, and thought that his petition, coming to Solomon through her, might appear less dangerous. That she should consent to ask the king was not unnatural. ‘The damsel was very fair’ (1Ki_1:4) and Adonijah ‘a very goodly man’ (1Ki_1:6), and such a marriage might appear to her not unfitting.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Bathsheba said, Well there is no reason why…
And Bathsheba said, Well there is no reason why the strict rendering "good," should not be preserved here. The A.V follows the LXX kalwv. Similarly Luther, wohl; but Bahr, gut, I will speak for thee LXX peri sou unto the king.
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