1 Kings 1:36
Good News Translation
"It shall be done," answered Benaiah, "and may the LORD your God confirm it!

New Revised Standard Version
Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so ordain.

Contemporary English Version
Benaiah answered, "We will do it, Your Majesty. I pray that the LORD your God will let it happen.

New American Bible
Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, answered the king: “So be it! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so decree!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.

Amen

Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen. . . .

Psalm 72:19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.

Jeremiah 11:5 That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.

Jeremiah 28:6 And Jeremiah the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to this place.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

1 Corinthians 14:16 Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest.

the Lord

1 Samuel 25:29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

1 Chronicles 17:27 And thou hast begun to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be always before thee: for seeing thou blessest it, O Lord, it shall be blessed for ever.

Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 89:20,26 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. . . .

Context
Solomon Anointed King
35And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda. 36And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.37As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king David.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 8:18
And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.

1 Kings 1:35
And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.

1 Kings 1:37
As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king David.

Jeremiah 28:6
And Jeremiah the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to this place.

1 Kings 1:35
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