◄ 1 Kings 1:24 ►
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Good News Translation
Then he said, "Your Majesty, have you announced that Adonijah would succeed you as king?

New Revised Standard Version
Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall succeed me as king, and he shall sit on my throne’?

Contemporary English Version
and said: Your Majesty, did you say that Adonijah would be king?

New American Bible
Then Nathan said: “My lord king, did you say, ‘Adonijah shall be king after me and shall sit upon my throne’?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?

hast thou

1 Kings 1:14,18 And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words. . . .

reign

1 Kings 1:5,13,17 And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will be king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. . . .

Context
Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
…23And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And when he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to the ground, 24Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?25Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:…
Cross References
1 Kings 1:23
And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And when he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to the ground,

1 Kings 1:25
Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:

1 Kings 1:23
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