SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:12
Ven pues ahora, y toma mi consejo, para que guardes tu vida, y la vida de tu hijo Salomón.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 1:12
Verse 12. Save thine own life, and the life of thy son] Nathan took for granted that Adonijah would put both Bath- sheba and Solomon to death as state criminals, if he got established on the throne. O cursed lust of rule! a father will destroy his son, a son depose his father, and a brother murder a brother, in order to obtain a crown! At this time the monarchy of Israel was unsettled; no man knew who was to succeed to the crown, and the minds of the people were as unsettled as the succession. I have examined both systems, and find that, with all its alleged disadvantages, hereditary monarchy has a high balance of evidence in its favour beyond that which is elective, and is every way more safe for the state and more secure for the subject.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel , etc.] How to conduct in this affair, which she being a woman, and no doubt surprised and confounded at this relation, might be at a loss what to do; wherefore Nathan, being a wise man, and a faithful friend, offers to give the best advice he could, and desires her attention to it: says he, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon ; which would be the usurper’s first care to take away, that he might have no rival, and none to disturb him in his government; which step has been often taken by usurpers to secure themselves, (see Judges 9:5).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 counse Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not onl that no man take our crown, Re 3:11, but that we save our lives, eve the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his fir cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lor redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animate him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death.
Original Hebrew
ועתה 6258 לכי 1980 איעצך 3289 נא 4994 עצה 6098 ומלטי 4422 את 853 נפשׁך 5315 ואת 853 נפשׁ 5315 בנך 1121 שׁלמה׃ 8010
