12 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.
12 Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
12 Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
12 Quickly now, let me tell you how you can save both your own life and Solomon's.
12 Come, please, let me now give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
12 If you want to save your own life and the life of your son Solomon, follow my advice.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Kings 1:12
Commentary on 1 Kings 1:11-31
(Read 1 Kings 1:11-31)
Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Revelation 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lord redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animated him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death.