1 Kings 1:14
in 1 Kings 1Then, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
KJV
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
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This verse in 1 Kings 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Confirm thy words - “Establish” them, by giving a second testimony. Nathan thinks it best to move David’s affections first through Bath-sheba, before he comes in to discuss the matter as one of state policy, and to take the king’s orders upon it.
This site's exposition
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign
on 1 Kings 1:13-14
Nathan writes Bathsheba's script for her nearly word for word, down to David's own oath that Solomon shall reign after him and sit on his throne. He promises to follow her into the chamber and confirm her words, a second witness by design, matching the two-mouth standard Deut 19:15 set for establishing a matter. The plan works because it stands on David's own prior promise, not on a new claim.
This site's exposition
I will come in after you
Albert Barnes reads the order of entry as design. Bathsheba moves David's affections first as wife and mother, and Nathan follows to treat the succession as a matter of state and take the king's orders on it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנֵּ֗ה | hineh | there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| עוֹדָ֛ךְ | odakh | still you | H5750 → | 490 times |
| מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת | medaberet | [are] speaking | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| שָׁ֖ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| וַאֲנִי֙ | vaani | and I | H589 → | 874 times |
| אָב֣וֹא | ʾavo' | I will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אַחֲרַ֔יִךְ | ʾacharayikh | after you | H310 → | 715 times |
| וּמִלֵּאתִ֖י | umileti | and I will confirm | H4390 → | 249 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| דְּבָרָֽיִךְ׃ | devarayikh | words your | H1697 → | 1440 times |
הִנֵּ֗הthere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
עוֹדָ֛ךְstill you
odakhH5750 →490 times
מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת[are] speaking
medaberetH1696 →1141 times
שָׁ֖םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
וַאֲנִי֙and I
vaaniH589 →874 times
אָב֣וֹאI will come
ʾavo'H935 →2568 times
אַחֲרַ֔יִךְafter you
ʾacharayikhH310 →715 times
וּמִלֵּאתִ֖יand I will confirm
umiletiH4390 →249 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
דְּבָרָֽיִךְ׃words your
devarayikhH1697 →1440 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
it leads to
- Matthew 18:16
But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
- Deuteronomy 19:15
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or…
- Deuteronomy 17:6
On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- John 8:17–18
Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- Numbers 35:30
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
- Matthew 18:16
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.