1 Kings 1:27
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New International Version (©2011)
Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
Has my lord the king really done this without letting any of his officials know who should be the next king?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I'm certain my lord the king would not have let this happen without letting your servant know who will sit on my lord the king's throne after him."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Were you behind this, your majesty, without letting your servants know who would sit on your majesty's throne after him?"

NET Bible (©2006)
Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants who should succeed my master the king on his throne?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Did you allow this to happen without telling me who would sit on your throne next?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed it unto your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

American King James Version
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed it to your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

American Standard Version
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed unto thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not told me thy servant who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

Darby Bible Translation
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewn to thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

English Revised Version
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed unto thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

Webster's Bible Translation
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shown it to thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

World English Bible
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

Young's Literal Translation
if from my lord the king this thing hath been, then thou hast not caused thy servant to know who doth sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.'

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 27. - Is this thing done [אִם = an, or perhaps, num, "Is it then the case that," etc.] by [lit., from with] my lord the king [i.e., with his privity and by his appointment], and thou hast not showed it unto thy servant [Hebrews "made thy servant know." Nathan submits that he has a strong claim (2 Samuel 12:25) to be informed, should there be any change in the king's plans], who should sit upon the throne of my lord the king after him? [Same expression as in ver. 20. The repetition was well calculated to impress upon the king the importance of nominating a successor at once.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Is this thing done by my lord the king,.... With his knowledge and consent, and by his orders:

and thou hast not showed it unto thy servant; meaning himself, who had brought him a message from the Lord, signifying that Solomon should succeed him; and therefore if that had been countermanded, it seemed strange that he should not have acquainted him with it: or "to thy servants", as the Arabic version; for the word has a plural ending, though pointed as singular; and so it may mean not only himself, but the rest of David's faithful servants that were about him at court, as Kimchi observes:

who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? if he had altered his mind, or had had any direction from the Lord to make any change, he wondered at it that he should neither acquaint him, nor any of his trusty friends, with it.

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Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
…25For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has 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. 26But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, has he not called. 27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed it to your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

1 Kings 1:26 But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he did not invite.
1 Kings 1:28 Then King David said, "Call in Bathsheba." So she came into the king's presence and stood before him.