Homage

How Nave’s arranged it

• Refused by PeterActs 10:26
• Paul and BarnabasActs 14:11–18
• By the angel seen by John in his visionRevelation 19:10Revelation 22:8Revelation 22:9
• See Worship
• Rendered to kings1 Kings 1:161 Kings 1:231 Kings 1:31
• PrincesEsther 3:2Esther 3:5

The passages, in Bible order (10)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Kings 1:16

   And Bathsheba bowed down in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:162 voices

   “And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king,.... Not only as being her husband, but her sovereign; and this behaviour might intimate, that she had something to say to him, and more than to inquire of his health: and the king said, wouldest thou? what hast thou to say to me? or to ask of me? what is thy will and pleasure, or thine errand to me?

   “Bath-sheba bowed, like the woman of Tekoah 2Sa 14:4, with the humble prostration of a suppliant. Hence, the king’s question, “What wouldest thou?”

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2. 1 Kings 1:23

   So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:232 voices

   “Thus fathers often call their sons their servants, yet without denying the genuineness of their nature. In fact, they often affectionately call their own servants children, yet without losing sight of the fact they did purchase them originally. For they use the one appellation from their authority as fathers, but in the other they speak from affection. Thus Sara called Abraham lord, although she was not a servant but a wife.

   “And they told the king,.... Some that attended at the door, or were in the chamber: saying, behold, Nathan the prophet; or he is in the room, which the king through his infirmities might not be sensible of: and when he was come in before the king; nearer to him, and as to be properly in his presence: he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground; showing him the same reverence, though in bed, as if on his throne.

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3. 1 Kings 1:31

   Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:312 voices

   “Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king,....

   “A lower and humbler obeisance than before 1Ki 1:16. In the Assyrian sculptures ambassadors are represented with their faces actually touching the earth before the feet of the monarch.

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4. Esther 3:2

   All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

   ›Commentary on Esther 3:22 voices

   “And the king's servants that were in the king's gate,....

   “Now, what could the arrogant Haman symbolize if not the haughtiness of the powerful of this world, who exploit the benefactions conferred on them in the name of godly piety even as they disdain to treat their neighbors—who share their lot in nature—as partners in …

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5. Esther 3:5

   When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.

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   “And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence,.... For, after the information given him, he observed and watched him, to see whether he bowed and did him reverence or not: then was Haman full of wrath; exceedingly displeased and angry; it was such a mortification to him he could not bear.

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6. Acts 10:26

   But Peter helped him up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”

   ›Commentary on Acts 10:262 voices

   “Let us wait for Him, beloved brethren, our Judge and Avenger, who shall equally avenge with Himself the congregation of His Church, and the number of all the righteous from the beginning of the world. Let him who hurries, and is too impatient for his revenge, consider that even He Himself is not yet avenged who is the Avenger.

   “But Peter took him up,....

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7. Acts 14:11–18

   When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

   ›Commentary on Acts 14:11–182 voices

   "And the people, having seen what Paul had done." Notice, on the one hand, the simple-heartedness of the pagans, and on the other, the craftiness of the Jews. The former honored the apostles as gods, while the latter persecuted them as destroyers of order.

   “And when the people saw what Paul had done,....

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8. Revelation 19:10

   So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

   ›Commentary on Revelation 19:102 voices

   “Who hold the testimony of Jesus. After the Lord Jesus elevated the assumed man above the heavens, the angel feared being worshipped by a man, evidently worshipping the man-God above himself, which we read was done by men before the Lord's Incarnation and was not …

   “And I fell at his feet to worship him,....

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9. Revelation 22:8

   And I am John, who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

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   “And when he says I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel. These things are interpreted in those that have arrived, when we also have demonstrated that the doctrines of the atheistic Greeks about their national leaders have …

   “And I John saw these things, and heard them,.... He was both an eye and an ear witness; some things he saw, and others he heard; and to render his testimony the more authentic, he puts his name to it; and he being an apostle of Christ, and a man of great sincerity and probity, is to be believed.

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10. Revelation 22:9

    But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

    ›Commentary on Revelation 22:92 voices

    “And when he says I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel. These things are interpreted in those that have arrived, when we also have demonstrated that the doctrines of the atheistic Greeks about their national leaders have …

    “The Father shows [the Son] to be his own proper and only Son, saying, "You are my Son," and "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Accordingly the angels ministered to him, as being one beyond themselves; and they worship him, not as being greater in glory but as being some one beyond all the creatures, and beyond themselves, and alone the Father's proper Son according to essence. For if he was worshiped as excelling them in glory, each of the things subservient ought to worship what excels itself.

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