Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

New American Standard Bible

So now come, please let me give you counsel and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

King James Version

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.

International Standard Version

If you listen to me, you'll save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Come now, please let me advise you and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

Bible in Basic English

So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Come now, advising, I will now advise thee, and save thou thy soul and the soul of thy son Solomon.

King James 2000

Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So then, come, let me advise you please, {that you may save} your life and the life of your son, Solomon.

Modern King James verseion

And now come, please let me give you counsel, and save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now therefore come, that I may give thee counsel how to save thine own life and the life of thy son Solomon.

NET Bible

Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon's life.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, come; let me give thee counsel, I pray thee, - so shalt thou rescue thine own life, and the life of thy son, Solomon.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

and now, come, let me counsel thee, I pray thee, and deliver thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

מלט 
Malat 
Usage: 95

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

and the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Adonijah Tries To Become King

11 Then Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king and our lord David does not know it? 12 Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your son Solomon. 13 Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne? So why has Adonijah become king?’

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his 70 brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be regarded as criminals.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

2 Chronicles 21:4

When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened his position by killing with the sword all his brothers as well as some of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:10

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

Proverbs 11:14

Without guidance, people fall,
but with many counselors there is deliverance.

Proverbs 15:22

Plans fail when there is no counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 20:18

Finalize plans with counsel,
and wage war with sound guidance.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.

Jeremiah 38:15

Jeremiah replied to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, you will kill me, won’t you? Besides, if I give you advice, you won’t listen to me anyway.”

Matthew 21:38

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

Acts 27:31

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

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