Parallel Verses

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.

Holman Bible

Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your 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 asked Solomon's mother Bathsheba: Have you heard that Adonijah, Haggith's son, has become king, and our master David does not even know about it? 12 So now come, please let me give you counsel and save your life and the life of your son Solomon. 13 Go now to King David and ask him: 'Your Majesty, did you solemnly promise me that my son Solomon would succeed you as king? How is it that Adonijah has become king?'

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father's house at Ophrah. There on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid and therefore was not killed.

1 Kings 1:21

If you do not my son Solomon and I will be treated as traitors when you die.

2 Kings 11:1

King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder. She gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.

2 Chronicles 21:4

Jehoram was in firm control of the kingdom. He had all his brothers killed, and also some Israelite officials.

2 Chronicles 22:10

When King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder, she gave orders for all the members of the royal family of Judah to be killed.

Proverbs 11:14

The people fall where there is no counsel. Yes, the people fall but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel plans fail. But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Proverbs 20:18

Good counsel makes for good plans. Seek good counsel if you wage war.

Proverbs 27:9

As oil and perfume delight the heart so the sweetness of a man's friend delights his heart.

Jeremiah 38:15

I answered: If I tell you the truth, you will put me to death, and if I give you advice, you will not pay any attention.

Matthew 21:38

When the workmen saw the son, they said, 'Let us put him to death and take his heritage, for someday he will own this property.'

Acts 27:31

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Unless these men remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.

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