1 Kings 1:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so ordain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ And Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so too.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so too.

Common English Bible

³⁶ Benaiah, Jehoiada’s son, responded to the king, “Yes, may it happen as the LORD, the God of my king, says.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, responded to the king, saying: "Amen. So says the Lord, the God of my lord the king.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ And Banaias the son of Joiada answered the king, saying: Amen. So say the Lord the God of my lord the king!

1 Kings 1:36 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:18

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

1 Kings 1:35

You shall go up following him. Let him enter and sit on my throne; he shall be king in my place, for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”

1 Kings 1:37

As the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”

1 Chronicles 17:27

therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord, have blessed and are blessed forever.”

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God; I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 72:19

Blessed be his glorious name forever; may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 89:20

I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have anointed him;

Psalm 89:26

He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’

Jeremiah 11:5

that I may perform the oath that I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.’ ” Then I answered, “So be it, Lord.”

Jeremiah 28:6

and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord fulfill the words that you have prophesied and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles.

Matthew 28:20

and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 6:13

And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.

1 Corinthians 14:16

Otherwise, if you say a blessing with the spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since the outsider does not know what you are saying?

1 Samuel 25:29

If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.