◄ 1 Kings 1:21 ►
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Good News Translation
If you don't, as soon as you are dead, my son Solomon and I will be treated as traitors."

New Revised Standard Version
Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, that my son Solomon and I will be counted offenders.”

Contemporary English Version
If you don't, they will say that Solomon and I have rebelled. They will treat us like criminals and kill us as soon as you die.

New American Bible
If this is not done, when my lord the king rests with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

sleep

1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

offenders [heb] sinners

1 Kings 2:15,22-24 Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had preferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is become my brother's: for it was appointed him by the Lord. . . .

Context
Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
…20And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the king, after thee. 21Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.22As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

2 Samuel 7:12
And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

1 Kings 1:20
And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the king, after thee.

1 Kings 1:22
As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.

1 Kings 2:10
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 1:20
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