Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and knelt before to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

New American Standard Bible

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”

King James Version

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Holman Bible

Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, paying homage to the king, and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

International Standard Version

"King David," Bathsheba said as she bowed low in front of the king with her face to the ground, "your majesty, may you live forever."

A Conservative Version

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, and laid herself face down before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

Bible in Basic English

Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.

Darby Translation

And Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

And Bath-sheba will bow the face to the earth and worship to the king, and say, My lord king David shall live forever,

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever."

Modern King James verseion

And Bathsheba bowed her face to the earth, even kneeling to the king, and said, Let my lord King David live forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Bathsheba bowed on her face to the earth and did obeisance unto the king, and said, "I pray God my lord king David may live ever."

NET Bible

Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said, "May my master, King David, live forever!"

New Heart English Bible

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, paying homage to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever."

The Emphasized Bible

Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did homage unto the king, - and said - Let my lord, King David, live to times age-abiding!

Webster

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.

World English Bible

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!"

Youngs Literal Translation

And Bath-Sheba boweth -- face to the earth -- and doth obeisance to the king, and saith, 'Let my lord, king David, live to the age.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּת־שׁבע 
Bath-Sheba` 
Usage: 11

קדד 
Qadad 
Usage: 15

to the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

to the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

and said

Usage: 0

Let my lord
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

References

Context Readings

Solomon Confirmed King

30 Even as I swore unto you by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my place; even so will I certainly do this day. 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and knelt before to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever. 32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.



Cross References

Daniel 2:4

Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Aramaic, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

Daniel 3:9

They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever.

Nehemiah 2:3

And said unto the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Daniel 5:10

Now the queen because of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever: let not your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed:

Daniel 6:6

Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live forever.

Daniel 6:21

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever.

2 Samuel 9:6

Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold your servant!

1 Kings 1:25

For he has gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.

Esther 3:2

And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and paid homage to Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor paid him homage.

Matthew 21:37

But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will respect my son.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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