1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ¹  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ² 

1 Kings 1:31

1:31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor ³  and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”

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¹ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

² tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

³ tn Heb “bowed low, face [to] the ground, and bowed down to the king.”