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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Gill's Exposition
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king,.... Thereby expressing her veneration of him, and thankfulness to him for his favour to her and her son, in fulfilling…
Barnes' Notes
A lower and humbler obeisance than before 1Ki 1:16. In the Assyrian sculptures ambassadors are represented with their faces actually touching the earth before the feet of the monarch.
We have here the effectual endeavours that were used by Nathan and Bathsheba to obtain from David a ratification of Solomon's succession, for the crushing of Adonijah's usurpation. 1. David himself…
Cambridge Bible
Let my lord king David live for ever On this common Oriental hyperbole, compare Dan 2:4; Dan 3:9; Dan 5:10, &c. It was the common Eastern formula. Bath-sheba implied thereby that in her zeal for…
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