16 Bathsheba bowed down, prostrating herself before the king. "What is it you want?" the king asked.
16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
16 Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?"
16 As Bathsheba bowed low, honoring the king, he said, "What do you want?"
16 And Bathsheba bowed and did homage to the king. Then the king said, "What is your wish?"
16 Bathsheba bowed down before the king. "What can I do for you?" he asked her.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Kings 1:16
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.