1 Kings 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ His father had never at any time reprimanded him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ David his father had never in his life displeased him by asking, Why have you done so? He was also a very attractive man and was born after Absalom.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

Common English Bible

⁶ Now Adonijah’s father had never given him direction; he never questioned why Adonijah did what he did. He was very handsome and was born after Absalom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Neither did his father chastise him at any time, saying, "Why have you done this?" Now he, too, was very beautiful, the second in birth, after Absalom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.

1 Kings 1:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:25

Now in all Israel there was no one to be praised so much for his beauty as Absalom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

1 Kings 2:22

King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom as well! For he is my elder brother, and the priest Abiathar and Joab son of Zeruiah are on his side!”

1 Chronicles 3:2

the third Absalom, son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, son of Haggith;

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

1 Samuel 10:23

Then they ran and brought him from there. When he took his stand among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than any of them.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

1 Samuel 9:2

He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the Israelites more handsome than he; he stood head and shoulders above everyone else.