“Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 1 contains 53 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.