Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now then, come, accept my counsel, and save your life and the life of your son Solomon. "
— 1 Kings 1:12, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“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. ”
“Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.”
“Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.”
“Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.”
“So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.”
“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.”
Then Adonijah, having immolated rams and calves and every kind of fat cattle beside the Stone of the Serpent, which was in the vicinity of the fountain Rogel, summoned all his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king.
But he did not summon Nathan, the prophet, and Benaiah, and all the mature men, and Solomon, his brother.
And so Nathan said to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon: “Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has begun to reign, and that our lord David is ignorant of this?
Now then, come, accept my counsel, and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
Go and enter to king David, and say to him: ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to me, your handmaid, saying: “Your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he himself shall sit on my throne?” Then why does Adonijah reign?’
And while you are still speaking with the king there, I will enter after you, and I will complete your words.”
And so Bathsheba entered to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag, the Shunammite, was ministering to him.