1 Kings 1:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Common English Bible

³¹ Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground. She honored the king and said, “May my master King David live forever!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And Bathsheba, having lowered her face to the ground, reverenced the king, saying, "May my lord David live forever."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And Bethsabee bowing with her face to the earth worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

1 Kings 1:31 Cross References

2 Samuel 9:6

Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul came to David and fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, “Mephibosheth!” He answered, “I am your servant.”

1 Kings 1:25

For today he has gone down and has sacrificed oxen, fatted cattle, and sheep in abundance and has invited all the king’s children, Joab the commander of the army, and the priest Abiathar, who are now eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Esther 3:2

And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance.

Daniel 2:4

The Chaldeans said to the king (in Aramaic), “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the interpretation.”

Daniel 3:9

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 5:10

The queen, when she heard the discussion of the king and his lords, came into the banquet hall. The queen said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts terrify you or your face grow pale.

Daniel 6:21

Daniel then said to the king, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 6:6

So the administrators and satraps conspired and came to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!

Matthew 21:37

Then he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

1 Samuel 20:41

As soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. He bowed three times, and they kissed each other and wept with each other; David wept the more.

1 Samuel 24:8

Afterward David also rose up and went out of the cave and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and did obeisance.