1 Kings 1:53

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So King Solomon sent, and they took him down from the altar. And he came and gave honour to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 On the third day a man came from Saul's tents, with his clothing out of order and earth on his head: and when he came to David, he went down on the earth and gave him honour.
  • 2 Sam 14:24 : 24 And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.
  • 2 Sam 14:28 : 28 For two full years Absalom was living in Jerusalem without ever seeing the face of the king.
  • 1 Kgs 1:16 : 16 And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?
  • 1 Kgs 1:31 : 31 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.
  • 1 Kgs 2:36 : 36 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:

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  • 1 Kgs 1:50-52
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    50 And Adonijah himself was full of fear because of Solomon; and he got up and went to the altar, and put his hands on its horns.

    51 And they gave Solomon word of it, saying, See, Adonijah goes in such fear of King Solomon, that he has put his hands on the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon first give me his oath that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.

    52 And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death.

  • 1 Kgs 1:16-17
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    16 And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?

    17 And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
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    46 And now Solomon is seated on the seat of the kingdom.

    47 And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

  • 1 Kgs 1:31-35
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    31 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.

    32 And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

    33 And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and put Solomon my son on my beast, yes, mine, and take him down to Gihon;

    34 And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!

    35 Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 2:29-30
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    29 And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him.

    30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:23
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    23 And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
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    25 And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

  • 1 Kgs 3:4
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    4 And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
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    15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 1:38
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    38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 2:19
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    19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
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    54 Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

  • 2 Chr 6:13
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    13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

  • 2 Chr 1:6-8
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    6 And Solomon went up there to the brass altar before the Lord at the Tent of meeting, offering on it a thousand burned offerings.

    7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • 2 Sam 24:20
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    20 And Araunah, looking out, saw the king and his servants coming to him: and Araunah went out, and went down on his face to the earth before the king.

  • 1 Chr 29:23-24
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    23 So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority.

    24 And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

  • 1 Kgs 2:41
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    41 And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
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    9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:12-13
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    12 So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.

    13 Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
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    46 So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.

  • 1 Kgs 2:13
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    13 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you in peace? And he said, Yes, in peace.

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

  • 1 Chr 21:21
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    21 And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:36
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    36 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
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    23 Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 3:6
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    6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
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    13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Kgs 1:28
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    28 Then King David in answer said, Send for Bath-sheba to come to me. And she came in and took her place before the king.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
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    15 Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
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    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,