What does 1 Kings 1:21 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Genesis 15:15

  But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

• 1 Kings 2:22

  And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

• 1 Kings 2:10

  And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

• 2 Samuel 7:12

  When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

• Deuteronomy 31:16

  And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

• 1 Kings 2:15

  And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s; for it was his from Jehovah.

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