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New Living Translation

1 Kings 1:14

And while you are still talking with him, I will come and confirm everything you have said."

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Right then, while you are still talking with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm what you are saying."
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 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 Then Nathan went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, and asked her, "Haven't you heard that Haggith's son, Adonijah, has made himself king, and our lord David doesn't even know about it? 12 If you want to save your own life and the life of your son Solomon, follow my advice. 13 Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, didn't you make a vow and say to me, "Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?' 14 And while you are still talking with him, I will come and confirm everything you have said." 15 So Bathsheba went into the king's bedroom. (He was very old now, and Abishag was taking care of him.) 16 Bathsheba bowed down before the king. "What can I do for you?" he asked her. 17 She replied, "My lord, you made a vow before the Lord your God when you said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne.' 18 But instead, Adonijah has made himself king, and my lord the king does not even know about it. 19 He has sacrificed many cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and he has invited all the king's sons to attend the celebration. He also invited Abiathar the priest and Joab, the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon. 20 And now, my lord the king, all Israel is waiting for you to announce who will become king after you.

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 formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
Then God said, "Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth."
Genesis 1:7
And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.
Genesis 1:8
God called the space "sky." And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear." And that is what happened.
Genesis 1:12
The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the 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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