1 Kings 1:16
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New International Version (©2011)
Bathsheba bowed down, prostrating herself before the king. "What is it you want?" the king asked.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Bathsheba bowed down before the king. "What can I do for you?" he asked her.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, "What do you wish?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Bathsheba bowed down and paid homage to the king, and he asked, "What do you want?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
Bathsheba knelt and bowed down to the king, and the king asked her, "What do you wish?"

NET Bible (©2006)
Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said, "What do you want?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Bathsheba knelt and bowed down in front of the king. "What do you want?" the king asked.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Bath-sheba bowed, and knelt before the king. And the king said, What would you?

American King James Version
And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What would you?

American Standard Version
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?

Darby Bible Translation
And Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?

English Revised Version
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?

Webster's Bible Translation
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldst thou?

World English Bible
Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"

Young's Literal Translation
and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, 'What -- to thee?'

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 16. - And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance [cf. 2 Samuel 14:4. But we are hardly justified in seeing here "more than the ordinary Eastern salutation" (Rawlinson). The Jewish court seems to have been very ceremonious and stately (1 Samuel 24:8; 2 Samuel 19:24). The king was the representative of Heaven]. And the king said, What wouldest thou [marg., What to thee? Not necessarily, What thy supplication? (as Rawlinson). It rather means generally, "What thy business?" Quid tibi, not quid petis.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king,.... Not only as being her husband, but her sovereign; and this behaviour might intimate, that she had something to say to him, and more than to inquire of his health:

and the king said, wouldest thou? what hast thou to say to me? or to ask of me? what is thy will and pleasure, or thine errand to me?

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Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
…15And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king. 16And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What would you? 17And she said to him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. …

1 Kings 1:15 So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the Shunammite was attending him.
1 Kings 1:17 She said to him, "My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: 'Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.'