“You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.”
— WEB
1 Kings 1:20
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“And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.”
— KJV
“And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.”
— ASV
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Commentary
the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne--When the kings died without declaring their will, then their oldest son succeeded. But frequently they designated long before their death which of their sons should inherit the throne. The kings of Persia, as well as of other Eastern countries, have exercised the same right in modern and even recent times.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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