Mefivoshet, the son of Yonatan, the son of Sha'ul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said, Mefivoshet. He answered, Behold, your servant!
1 Kings 1:31 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then Bat-Sheva bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 And Bethsabee bowing with her face to the earth worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever. |
Mefivoshet, the son of Yonatan, the son of Sha'ul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said, Mefivoshet. He answered, Behold, your servant!
For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Avyatar the Kohen; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, [Long] live king Adoniyahu.
I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
All the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordekhai didn't bow down or pay him homage.
Then spoke the Kasdim to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
[Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Daryavesh, live forever.
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Sha'ul, saying, My lord the king. When Sha'ul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.