1st Kings Chapter 1 verse 31 Holy Bible
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
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Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.
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And Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
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Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
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Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
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Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.
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And Bath-Sheba boweth -- face to the earth -- and doth obeisance to the king, and saith, `Let my lord, king David, live to the age.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king [see on vers. 16, 23], and said, Let my lord king David live forever. [This hyperbolical expression is here only used of a Hebrew monarch. It was constantly addressed to the Babylonian and Persian kings. See Daniel 2:4; Daniel 3:9; Daniel 5:10; Daniel 6:21; Nehemiah 2:3.