1 Kings 1:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Come now, let me advise you how to save your own life and your son Solomon's.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Common English Bible

¹² Let me give you some advice on how you and your son Solomon can survive this.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Now then, come, accept my counsel, and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

1 Kings 1:12 Cross References

Acts 27:31

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Jeremiah 38:15

Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, you will put me to death, will you not? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”

Proverbs 27:9

Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are established by taking advice; wage war by following wise guidance.

Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 11:14

Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

2 Chronicles 22:10

Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family of the house of Judah.

2 Chronicles 21:4

Jehoram ascended the throne of his father, and he strengthened himself, and he put all his brothers to the sword, as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family.

1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, that my son Solomon and I will be counted offenders.”

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”

1 Kings 1:13

Go in at once to King David and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Your son Solomon shall succeed me as king, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then is Adonijah king?’