1 Kings 1:36
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.”
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““Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so too.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Benaiah son of Jehoiada answereth the king, and saith, `Amen! so doth Jehovah, God of my lord the king, say;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 1:36 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- 1 Chronicles 17:27So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”
- Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Psalms 72:19And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
- Psalms 89:20I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- Psalms 89:26He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
- Jeremiah 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
- Jeremiah 28:6“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
- Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:16Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
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