1 Kings 1:53

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

King Solomon sent men to bring him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him,“Go home.”

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.
  • 2 Sam 14:24 : 24 But the king said,“Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.
  • 2 Sam 14:28 : 28 Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two years without seeing the king’s face.
  • 1 Kgs 1:16 : 16 Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said,“What do you want?”
  • 1 Kgs 1:31 : 31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said,“May my master, King David, live forever!”
  • 1 Kgs 2:36 : 36 Next the king summoned Shimei and told him,“Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there– but you may not leave there to go anywhere!
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 Fear the LORD, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

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  • 1 Kgs 1:50-52
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    50Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

    51Solomon was told,“Look, Adonijah fears you; see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying,‘May King Solomon solemnly promise me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

    52Solomon said,“If he is a loyal subject, not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, he will die.”

  • 1 Kgs 1:16-17
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    16Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said,“What do you want?”

    17She replied to him,“My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the LORD your God,‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
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    46Furthermore, Solomon has assumed the royal throne.

    47The king’s servants have even come to congratulate our master King David, saying,‘May your God make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ Then the king leaned on the bed

  • 1 Kgs 1:31-35
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    31Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said,“May my master, King David, live forever!”

    32King David said,“Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king,

    33and he told them,“Take your master’s servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.

    34There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare,‘Long live King Solomon!’

    35Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

  • 1 Kgs 2:29-30
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    29When King Solomon heard that Joab had run to the tent of the LORD and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada,“Go, strike him down.”

    30When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the LORD, he said to him,“The king says,‘Come out!’” But he replied,“No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:23
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    23The king was told,“Nathan the prophet is here.” Nathan entered and bowed before the king with his face to the floor.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
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    25King Solomon then sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:4
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    4The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
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    15Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 1:38
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    38So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2Solomon then sent this message to Hiram:

  • 1 Kgs 2:19
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    19So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
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    54When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the LORD, he got up from before the altar of the LORD where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.

  • 2 Chr 6:13
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    13Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

  • 2 Chr 1:6-8
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    6Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.

    7That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him,“Tell me what I should give you.”

    8Solomon replied to God,“You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon:

  • 2 Sam 24:20
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    20When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

  • 1 Chr 29:23-24
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    23Solomon sat on the LORD’s throne as king in place of his father David; he was successful and all Israel was loyal to him.

    24All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 2:41
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    41When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,

  • 2 Sam 15:9
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    9The king replied to him,“Go in peace.” So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:12-13
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    12Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

    13Visit King David and say to him,‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise your servant,“Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
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    46The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 2:13
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    13Haggith’s son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked,“Do you come in peace?” He answered,“Yes.”

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him,“Prophet, the king says,‘Come down!’”

  • 1 Chr 21:21
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    21When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.

  • 1 Kgs 2:36
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    36Next the king summoned Shimei and told him,“Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there– but you may not leave there to go anywhere!

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
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    23King Solomon then swore an oath by the LORD,“May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • 1 Kgs 3:6
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    6Solomon replied,“You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
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    13Solomon Commissions Hiram to Supply the Temple King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre.

  • 1 Kgs 1:28
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    28David Picks Solomon as His Successor King David responded,“Summon Bathsheba!” She came and stood before the king.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
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    15The LORD’s angel said to Elijah,“Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20Now, my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
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    2Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.