1 Kings 1:14
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New International Version (©2011)
While you are still there talking to the king, I will come in and add my word to what you have said."

New Living Translation (©2007)
And while you are still talking with him, I will come and confirm everything you have said."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
At that moment, while you are still there speaking with the king, I'll come in after you and confirm your words."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then, while you are still talking to the king, I'll come in after you and verify your statement."

NET Bible (©2006)
While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
And while you're still there talking to the king, I'll come in and confirm what you have said."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.

American King James Version
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.

American Standard Version
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee and confirm thy words.

English Revised Version
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, while thou art yet talking there with the king, I will also come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

World English Bible
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:11-31 Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Re 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lord redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animated him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 14. - Behold, while thou yet talkest there [the original is more graphic, "thou art yet talking... and I"] with the king, I also win come after thee and confirm [marg., "fill up," cf. πληρώσω, LXX. Still an idiom of the East. Roberts (quoted in the "Biblical Museum") cites many illustrations. The meaning is, not to add to, amplify, but to corroborate. See 1 Kings 2:27; 1 Kings 8:15, 24) thy words.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,.... Before, or by the time she could deliver the above words to him, or such as she should think fit to use, to awaken the king to a concern for the interest of her and her son:

I will also come in after thee; directly into the king's chamber:

and confirm thy words; as he could very well do, if he was present as a witness of the oath he had made to her, as well as he could confirm the truth of Adonijah's usurpation; nay, could plead the will and promises of God he had formerly notified to him: or, "fill up thy words" (f), make up what might be wanting in her address to him, in her account of things, or in the arguments used by her; he means, that he would second her in her motion in favour of Solomon, and press the king to take some steps for the security of the succession to him. Nathan knew it was the will of God that Solomon should succeed in the kingdom, he had promised it by him, see 2 Samuel 7:12; yet, as a wise and good man, he thought it right to make use of all proper means to attain the end.

(f) "complebo", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "explebo", Ar.

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Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
…13Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, Did not you, my lord, O king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign? 14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words. 15And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king. …

1 Kings 1:13 Go in to King David and say to him, 'My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: "Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?'
1 Kings 1:15 So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the Shunammite was attending him.