SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:31
Entonces Betsabé se inclinó al rey, su rostro a tierra, y haciendo reverencia al rey, dijo: Viva mi señor el rey David para siempre.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 31. Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king , etc.] Thereby expressing her veneration of him, and thankfulness to him for his favour to her and her son, in fulfilling his promise and oath: and said, let my lord King David live for ever ; which though a common form of salutation of kings, not only in Israel, but in other nations, is not to be considered as a mere compliment, but as expressing the real desires and affection of her heart to the king; signifying hereby that her solicitations on the behalf of her son did not arise from any desire of the king’s death; she heartily wished him health to live long and easy; and all her request was, that Solomon her son might succeed him, whenever it pleased God to remove him; or seeing he was now a dying man as it were, her prayer was that his soul might live for ever in happiness in the world to come; so Kimchi interprets it.
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
ותקד 6915 בת־שׁבע 1339 אפים 639 ארץ 776 ותשׁתחו 7812 למלך 4428 ותאמר 559 יחי 2421 אדני 113 המלך 4428 דוד 1732 לעלם׃ 5769
