1 Kings 1:31

Myles Coverdale Bible

Then Bethseba bowed hir selfe with hir face to the grounde, and thanked the kynge and sayde: God saue my lorde kynge Dauid for euermore.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Bathsheba knelt low with her face to the ground, paying homage to the king, and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

Hebrew Names Version
Then Bat-Sheva bowed with her face to the eretz, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

King James Version
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

English Standard Version
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"

New Century Version
Then Bathsheba bowed facedown on the ground and knelt before the king and said, "Long live my master King David!"

New English Translation
Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said, "May my master, King David, live forever!"

Amplified Bible
Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, and laid herself face down before the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"

New American Standard Bible
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Bath-sheba bowed her face to the earth, and did reuerence vnto the King, and said, God saue my lord King Dauid for euer.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever."

Contemporary English Version
Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I pray that you will live a long time!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Bat-Sheva bowed with her face to the ground, prostrating herself to the king, and said, "Let my lord King David live forever."

Darby Translation
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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Bathsheba bowed down before the king and said, "Long live King David!"

George Lamsa Translation
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.

Good News Translation
Bathsheba bowed low and said, "May my lord the king live forever!"

Lexham English Bible
Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever."

Literal Translation
And Bathsheba bowed her face to the earth, even bowing to the king, and said, Let my lord King David live forever.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Bethsabe bowed on her face to the earth, and dyd reuerence vnto the king, & sayde: I pray God that my lorde king Dauid may lyue for euer.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and prostrated herself to the king, and said: 'Let my lord king David live for ever.'

King James Version (1611)
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reuerence to the king, and said, Let my lord king Dauid liue for euer.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Bersabee bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

English Revised Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Bersabee, with the cheer cast doun in to erthe, worschipide the kyng, and seide, My lord the kyng Dauid lyue with outen ende.

Young's Literal Translation
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.'

Update Bible Version
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

New King James Version
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and paid homage to the king, and said, "Let my lord King David live forever!"

New Living Translation
Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground before the king and exclaimed, "May my lord King David live forever!"

New Life Bible
Bathsheba put her face to the ground in front of the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever."

New Revised Standard
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did homage unto the king, - and said - Let my lord, King David, live to times age-abiding!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

Revised Standard Version
Then Bathshe'ba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "May my lord King David live for ever!"

THE MESSAGE
Bathsheba bowed low, her face to the ground. Kneeling in reverence before the king she said, "Oh, may my master, King David, live forever!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever."

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then sayde Nathan vnto Bethseba Salomons mother: Hast thou not herde yt Adonias is kynge, and oure lorde Dauid knoweth not therof? ¹² Come now therfore, I wyll geue the councell, that thou mayest delyuer thy soule and the soule of thy sonne Salomon. ¹³ Come now and go in to kinge Dauid and saye vnto him: Hast not thou my lorde the kynge sworne and sayde vnto thy handmayden: Salomon thy sonne shall be kynge after me, and he shall sytt vpon my seate? Why is then Adonias made kynge? ¹⁴ Beholde, while thou art yet there, and talkest with the kynge, I wyll come in after the, and tell forth thy tayle. ¹⁵ And Bethseba wente in to the kynge to ye chamber. And the kynge was very olde. And Abisag of Sunem serued the kynge. ¹⁶ And Bethseba bowed hirselfe, and worshipped the kynge.The kynge sayde: What wilt thou? ¹⁷ She sayde vnto him: My lorde, Thou hast sworne vnto thy handmayde by the LORDE thy God: Thy sonne Salomon shall be kynge after me and syt vpon my seate. ¹⁸ But now lo, Adonias is kynge, and my lorde the kynge knoweth it not. ¹⁹ He hath offred oxen and fat catell, and many shepe, and hath called all the kynges sonnes, and Abiathar the prest, and Ioab the chefe captayne. But thy seruaunt Salomon hath he not bydden. ²⁰ Neuertheles thou my lorde art kynge, the eyes of all Israel loke vnto the., that thou shuldest shewe them who shall syt vpon the seate of my lorde the kynge after the.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

did reverence: 2 Samuel 9:6, Esther 3:2, Matthew 21:37, Ephesians 5:33, Hebrews 12:9

Let my: 1 Kings 1:25, Nehemiah 2:3, Daniel 2:4, Daniel 3:9, Daniel 5:10, Daniel 6:6, Daniel 6:21

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:53 - bowed himself 1 Chronicles 29:22 - and anointed

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:

Genesis 1:2
and ye earth was voyde and emptie, and darcknes was vpon the depe, & ye sprete of God moued vpo the water.

Genesis 1:5
and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.

Genesis 1:8
And God called ye firmament, Heauen. Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the seconde daye.

Genesis 1:13
Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the thirde daye.

Genesis 1:19
Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fourth daye.

Genesis 1:23
Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fifth daye.

Genesis 2:2
and thus in the seuenth daye God ended his worke, which he had made, & rested in the seuenth daye from all his workes which he had made:

Exodus 20:11
For in sixe dayes the LORDE made heauen and earth, and the see, and all that therin is, and rested vpon the seuenth daye: therfore the LORDE blessed the seuenth daye, & halowed it.

Job 38:7
where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king,.... Thereby expressing her veneration of him, and thankfulness to him for his favour to her and her son, in fulfilling his promise and oath:

and said, let my lord King David live for ever; which though a common form of salutation of kings, not only in Israel, but in other nations, is not to be considered as a mere compliment, but as expressing the real desires and affection of her heart to the king; signifying hereby that her solicitations on the behalf of her son did not arise from any desire of the king's death; she heartily wished him health to live long and easy; and all her request was, that Solomon her son might succeed him, whenever it pleased God to remove him; or seeing he was now a dying man as it were, her prayer was that his soul might live for ever in happiness in the world to come; so Kimchi interprets it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A lower and humbler obeisance than before 1 Kings 1:16. In the Assyrian sculptures ambassadors are represented with their faces actually touching the earth before the feet of the monarch.