1 Kings 1:12
Good News Translation
If you want to save your life and the life of your son Solomon, I would advise you to

New Revised Standard Version
Now therefore come, let me give you advice, so that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

Contemporary English Version
You and your son Solomon will be killed, unless you do what I tell you.

New American Bible
Come now, let me advise you so that you may save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

let me

Proverbs 11:14 He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 20:18 Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.

Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

Jeremiah 38:15 Then Jeremiah said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee, wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken to me.

save

1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.

the life

Judges 9:5 And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.

2 Kings 11:1 Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.

2 Chronicles 21:4 So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:10 For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

Matthew 21:38 But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

Context
Nathan and Bathsheba Before David
11And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not? 12Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.13Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?…
Cross References
Proverbs 15:22
Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

1 Kings 1:13
Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?

1 Kings 1:11
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