Parallel Verses

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.

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.”

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,

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.

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 sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. 31 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. 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 spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

Daniel 3:9

They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

Nehemiah 2:3

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

Daniel 5:10

Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

Daniel 6:6

Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

Daniel 6:21

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

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 thy servant!

1 Kings 1:25

For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, 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 reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.

Matthew 21:37

But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence 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 reverence her husband.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which 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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