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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 1:14

Right then, while you are still talking with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm what you are saying."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bath-Sheba (Bathsheba);   Civil Service;   Nathan;   Politics;   Solomon;   Statecraft;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Nathan;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adonijah;   Benaiah;   Confirm;   Nathan;   Queen;   Wheel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Firstborn;   Israel;   Nathan;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Fulfilment;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba ;   Benaiah ;   Jehoiada ;   Nathan ;   Zadok ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At that moment, while you are still there speaking with the king, I’ll come in after you and confirm your words.”
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
King James Version
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
English Standard Version
Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."
New Century Version
While you are still talking to the king, I will come in and tell him that what you have said about Adonijah is true."
New English Translation
While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report."
Amplified Bible
"Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the King, I also will come in after thee, and confirme thy wordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and fully confirm your words."
Contemporary English Version
While you are still talking to David, I'll come in and tell him that everything you said is true.
Darby Translation
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee and confirm thy words.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then while you are still talking with him, I will come in. After you leave I will tell the king what has happened. This will show that what you said is true."
George Lamsa Translation
And, while you are still speaking there in the presence of the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.
Good News Translation
And Nathan added, "Then, while you are still talking with King David, I will come in and confirm your story."
Lexham English Bible
While you are still there speaking with the king, I will enter after you, and I will confirm your words."
Literal Translation
Behold, while you are speaking with the king, then I will come in after you and will confirm your words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, while thou art yet there, and talkest with the kynge, I wyll come in after the, and tell forth thy tayle.
American Standard Version
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
Bible in Basic English
And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, whyle thou yet talkest there with the king, I wil come in after thee, and confirme thy wordes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.'
King James Version (1611)
Beholde, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirme thy words.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And behold, while thou art still speaking there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and will confirm thy words.
English Revised Version
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
Berean Standard Bible
Then, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi therfor regneth Adonye? And yit while thou schalt speke there with the kyng, Y schal come aftir thee, and `Y schal fille thi wordis.
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'
Update Bible Version
Look, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, while thou art yet talking there with the king, I will also come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
World English Bible
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
New King James Version
Then, while you are still talking there with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."
New Living Translation
And while you are still talking with him, I will come and confirm everything you have said."
New Life Bible
While you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and tell him your words are true."
New Revised Standard
Then while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I also, will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words.
Revised Standard Version
Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."

Contextual Overview

11 Natan went to Bat-Sheva the mother of Shlomo and said, "Haven't you heard that Adoniyah the son of Haggit has become king without the knowledge of David our lord? 12 Now, come, please let me give you advice, so that you can save both your own life and that of your son Shlomo. 13 Go, get in to see King David, and say to him, ‘My lord, king, didn't you swear to your servant, "Your son Shlomo will be king after me; he will sit on my throne"? So why is Adoniyah king?' 14 Right then, while you are still talking with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm what you are saying." 15 Bat-Sheva went in to the king in his room. (The king was very old; Avishag the Shunamit was in attendance on the king.) 16 Bat-Sheva bowed, prostrating herself to the king. The king asked, "What do you want?" 17 She answered him, "My lord, you swore by Adonai your God to your servant, ‘Your son Shlomo will be king after me; he will sit on my throne.' 18 But now, here is Adoniyah ruling as king; and you, my lord the king, don't know anything about it. 19 He has killed oxen, fattened calves and sheep in great numbers; and he has summoned all the sons of the king, Evyatar the cohen and Yo'av the commander of the army; but he didn't summon Shlomo your servant. 20 As for you, my lord the king, all Isra'el is watching you; they are waiting for you to tell them who is to sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I also: 1 Kings 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 13:1

confirm: Heb. fill up

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:24 - hast thou

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water.
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the water; let it divide the water from the water."
Genesis 1:7
God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was,
Genesis 1:8
and God called the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let dry land appear," and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth grass, plants each yielding its own kind of seed, and trees each producing its own kind of seed-bearing fruit; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
(A: ii) God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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:

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 2 Samuel 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 מלאתי "complebo", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "explebo", Ar.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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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