1st Kings Chapter 1 verse 14 Holy Bible
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
read chapter 1 in ASV
And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.
read chapter 1 in BBE
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee and confirm thy words.
read chapter 1 in DARBY
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
read chapter 1 in KJV
Behold, while thou art yet talking there with the king, I will also come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
read chapter 1 in WBT
Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
read chapter 1 in WEB
Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'
read chapter 1 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) While thou yet talkest.--The whole history seems to indicate a growth of royal state and Oriental reverence for the king's person since the defeat of Absalom, contrasted with the comparative simplicity of intercourse with him in earlier days, and preparatory to the still greater development of majesty and despotism under Solomon. Bath-sheba's entrance into the bedchamber seems to be looked upon as an intrusion, to be ventured upon only in the humble attitude of a suppliant. Nathan does not presume to approach the king with remonstrance, till the maternal anxiety of Bath-sheba has paved the way. (Comp, in Esther 4:10-16, the picture of the still more unapproachable royalty of Persia.)
