1 Kings 1:12 “Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the lif…”

1 Kings 1:12

Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

World English Bible

Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life.

American Standard Version

Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Geneva Bible 1599

Now therefore come, and I will now giue thee counsell, howe to saue thine owne life, and the life of thy sonne Salomon.

Darby Translation

And now, come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Young's Literal Translation

and now, come, let me counsel thee, I pray thee, and deliver thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon;

Bible in Basic English

So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.

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Cross references

“let me”

Proverbs 11:14 Proverbs 20:18 Proverbs 27:9 Jeremiah 38:15

Proverbs 11:14 · BSB

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Proverbs 20:18 · BSB

Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.

Proverbs 27:9 · BSB

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.

Jeremiah 38:15 · BSB

“If I tell you,” Jeremiah replied, “you will surely put me to death. And even if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”

“save”

1 Kings 1:21 Genesis 19:17 Acts 27:31

1 Kings 1:21 · BSB

Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

Genesis 19:17 · BSB

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Acts 27:31 · BSB

But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

“the life”

Judges 9:5 2 Kings 11:1 2 Chronicles 21:4 2 Chronicles 22:10 Matthew 21:38

Judges 9:5 · BSB

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

2 Kings 11:1 · BSB

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

2 Chronicles 21:4 · BSB

When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:10 · BSB

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

Matthew 21:38 · BSB

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

Also

Proverbs 15:22

Proverbs 15:22 · BSB

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

13Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

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