Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Ver. 19. And bowed himself unto her.] Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, would in Westminster Hall beg his father's blessing on his knees.