1-Kings - 1:16



16 Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 1:16.

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And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldst thou?
and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, 'What, to thee?'
And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?
And Bath-sheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'
Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, 'What would you like?'
Bathsheba bowed herself, and she reverenced the king. And the king said to her, "What do you wish?"

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Bath-sheba bowed, like the woman of Tekoah 2-Samuel 14:4, with the humble prostration of a suppliant. Hence, the king's question, "What wouldest thou?"

And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king,.... Not only as being her husband, but her sovereign; and this behaviour might intimate, that she had something to say to him, and more than to inquire of his health:
and the king said, wouldest thou? what hast thou to say to me? or to ask of me? what is thy will and pleasure, or thine errand to me?

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