1 Kings 1:16

World English Bible (2000)

Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"

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  • 1 Sam 20:41 : 41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.
  • 1 Sam 24:8 : 8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.
  • 1 Sam 25:23 : 23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
  • 1 Kgs 1:23 : 23 They told the king, saying, "Behold, Nathan the prophet!" When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
  • 1 Kgs 2:20 : 20 Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you."
  • Esth 7:2 : 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."
  • Matt 20:21 : 21 He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
  • Matt 20:32 : 32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"

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  • 1 Kgs 1:27-32
    6 verses
    87%

    27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

    28Then king David answered, "Call to me Bathsheba." She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

    29The king swore, and said, "As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

    30most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;' most certainly so will I do this day."

    31Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!"

    32King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:17
    85%

    17She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:16-22
    7 verses
    85%

    16Now I ask one petition of you. Don't deny me." She said to him, "Say on."

    17He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."

    18Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

    19Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

    20Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you."

    21She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

    22King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."

  • 1 Kgs 1:11-15
    5 verses
    84%

    11Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?

    12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

    13Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'

    14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."

    15Bathsheba went in to the king into the room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
    2 verses
    79%

    46Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

    47Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;' and the king bowed himself on the bed.

  • 1 Kgs 1:53
    77%

    53So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."

  • 1 Kgs 2:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably.

    14He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on."

  • 1 Kgs 1:22-24
    3 verses
    76%

    22Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

    23They told the king, saying, "Behold, Nathan the prophet!" When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

    24Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?'

  • 2 Sam 14:4
    76%

    4When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king!"

  • 2 Sam 11:2-3
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    75%

    2It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

    3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

  • 2 Sam 12:24
    75%

    24David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

    8Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Chr 29:20
    73%

    20David said to all the assembly, "Now bless Yahweh your God!" All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

  • 1 Sam 25:41
    73%

    41She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    73%

    12Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    73%

    20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.

    2Therefore his servants said to him, "Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm."

  • 1 Sam 24:8
    72%

    8David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

  • 2 Sam 14:15
    72%

    15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

  • 2 Sam 24:20
    72%

    20Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 14:18
    72%

    18Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

  • 1 Kgs 1:4
    71%

    4The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    71%

    12King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Sam 14:33
    71%

    33So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

  • 1 Kgs 3:6
    71%

    6Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 1 Kgs 1:36
    71%

    36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

  • 1 Chr 17:16
    71%

    16Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

  • 1 Chr 21:21
    71%

    21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.