1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord {H113} the king {H4428} shall sleep {H7901} with his fathers {H1}, that I and my son {H1121} Solomon {H8010} shall be counted offenders {H2400}.

If you don't, then, when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, I and my son Shlomo will be considered criminals."

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

Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 1 Kings 2:10 (5 votes)

    So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

  • Deuteronomy 31:16 (5 votes)

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  • 2 Samuel 7:12 (2 votes)

    And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

  • Genesis 15:15 (2 votes)

    And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

  • 1 Kings 2:15 (2 votes)

    And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.

  • 1 Kings 2:22 (2 votes)

    And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

  • 1 Kings 2:24 (2 votes)

    Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.