1 Kings 1:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

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  • Deut 31:16 : 16 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • 1 Kgs 2:15 : 15 He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 2:22-24 : 22 King 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. 23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
  • 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
  • Gen 15:15 : 15 But you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:17-20
    4 verses
    83%

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

    18Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it:

    19and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but he hasn't called Solomon your servant.

    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 1:22-24
    3 verses
    81%

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

    23They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. When he was 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?

  • 1 Kgs 1:11-14
    4 verses
    79%

    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 and get you 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.

  • 1 Kgs 1:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

    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?

  • 1 Kgs 1:35
    77%

    35Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 1:37
    76%

    37As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

  • 1 Kgs 2:22-24
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    23Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

    24Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

  • 1 Chr 17:11
    75%

    11It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 1:30
    74%

    30most assuredly 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 assuredly so will I do this day.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    74%

    4That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:15
    74%

    15According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
    2 verses
    74%

    46Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

    47Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, 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 1:52
    73%

    52Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.

  • 2 Chr 1:8
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:1
    72%

    1Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

  • 2 Chr 6:16
    72%

    16Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.

  • 2 Sam 7:17
    72%

    17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
    2 verses
    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.

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Sam 19:19
    72%

    19He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

  • 1 Chr 17:3
    72%

    3It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  • 2 Sam 18:13
    72%

    13Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against [me].

  • 2 Sam 7:12
    72%

    12When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

  • 1 Chr 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

    11Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

  • 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; and 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.

  • 2 Sam 7:4
    71%

    4It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

  • 2 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"

    13David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

  • 1 Kgs 1:43
    71%

    43Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most assuredly our lord king David has made Solomon king:

  • 1 Kgs 2:45
    71%

    45But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yahweh forever.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12
    71%

    12Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

  • 1 Kgs 11:43
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    43Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Sam 14:9
    71%

    9The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
    71%

    25Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

  • 1 Chr 28:5
    71%

    5Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:5
    71%

    5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.