1 Kings 1:17 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 1:17

“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by Jehovah thy God unto thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

KJV

And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֣אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
ל֗וֹ	lo	to him
אֲדֹנִי֙	'a.do.Ni	O lord my	H113 →
אַתָּ֨ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
נִשְׁבַּ֜עְתָּ	nish.Ba'.ta	you swore an oath	H7650 →
בַּֽיהוָ֤ה	ba.Yah.weh	by Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
לַֽאֲמָתֶ֔ךָ	la.'a.ma.Te.kha	to maidservant your	H519 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
בְנֵ֖ךְ	ve.Nekh	son your	H1121 →
יִמְלֹ֣ךְ	yim.Lokh	he will reign	H4427 →
אַחֲרָ֑י	'a.cha.Rai	after me	H310 →
וְה֖וּא	ve.Hu'	and he	H1931 →
יֵשֵׁ֥ב	ye.Shev	he will sit	H3427 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
כִּסְאִֽי׃	kis.'I	throne my	H3678 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 3:6
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.
leads to
- Genesis 18:12
  So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- Romans 9:7–9
  Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- Isaiah 57:11
  Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear…
- Daniel 3:16–18
  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
- Acts 4:19
  But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
Through
1 Kings 1:13
Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”?…
leads to
- 1 Kings 1:30
  I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my…
Through
Genesis 18:12
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
leads to
- Genesis 17:17
  Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- 1 Peter 3:6
  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.