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Now king David was old and stricken in years ;
and they covered him with clothes ,
but he gat no heat .
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Wherefore his servants said unto him ,
Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin :
and let her stand before the king ,
and let her cherish him ,
and let her lie in thy bosom ,
that my lord the king may get heat .
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So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and found Abishag a Shunammite ,
and brought her to the king .
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And the damsel was very fair ,
and cherished the king ,
and ministered to him :
but the king knew her not .
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself ,
saying ,
I will be king :
and he prepared him chariots and horsemen ,
and fifty men to run before him .
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And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying ,
Why hast thou done so ?
and he also was a very goodly towb #
man ;
and his mother bare him after Absalom .
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And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
and with Abiathar the priest :
and they following Adonijah helped him .
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But Zadok the priest ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Shimei Shim #
iy #,
and Rei Re #
iy #,
and the mighty men which belonged to David ,
were not with Adonijah .
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And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth ,
which is by Enrogel #
Eyn ,
and called all his brethren the kings sons ,
and all the men of Judah the kings servants :
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But Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah ,
and the mighty men ,
and Solomon his brother ,
he called not .
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Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
the mother of Solomon ,
saying ,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign ,
and David our lord knoweth it not ?
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Now therefore come ,
let me ,
I pray thee ,
give thee counsel ya #,
that thou mayest save thine own life ,
and the life of thy son Solomon .
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Go and get thee in unto king David ,
and say unto him ,
Didst not thou ,
my lord ,
O king ,
swear unto thine handmaid ,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne ?
why then doth Adonijah reign ?
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Behold ,
while thou yet talkest there with the king ,
I also will come in after thee ,
and confirm thy words .
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And Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
went in unto the king into the chamber :
and the king was very old ;
and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king .
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And Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
bowed ,
and did obeisance unto the king .
And the king said ,
What wouldest thou ?
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And she said unto him ,
My lord ,
thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid ,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne .
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And now ,
behold ,
Adonijah reigneth ;
and now ,
my lord the king ,
thou knowest it not :
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And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance ,
and hath called all the sons of the king ,
and Abiathar the priest ,
and Joab the captain of the host :
but Solomon thy servant hath he not called .
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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 .
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Otherwise it shall come to pass ,
when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers ,
that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders .
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And ,
lo ,
while she yet talked with the king ,
Nathan the prophet also came in .
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And they told the king ,
saying ,
Behold Nathan the prophet .
And when he was come in before the king ,
he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground .
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And Nathan said ,
My lord ,
O king ,
hast thou said ,
Adonijah shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne ?
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For he is gone down this day ,
and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance ,
and hath called all the kings sons ,
and the captains of the host ,
and Abiathar the priest ;
and ,
behold ,
they eat and drink before him ,
and say ,
God save king Adonijah .
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But me ,
even me thy servant ,
and Zadok the priest ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and thy servant Solomon ,
hath he not called .
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Is this thing done by my lord the king ,
and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant ,
who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him ?
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Then king David answered and said ,
Call me Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #.
And she came into the kings presence ,
and stood before the king .
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And the king sware ,
and said ,
As the LORD liveth ,
that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress ,
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Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead ;
even so will I certainly do this day .
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Then Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
bowed with her face to the earth ,
and did reverence to the king ,
and said ,
Let my lord king David live for ever .
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And king David said ,
Call me Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada .
And they came before the king .
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The king also said unto them ,
Take with you the servants of your lord ,
and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule ,
and bring him down to Gihon :
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And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel Yisra #
el #:
and blow ye with the trumpet ,
and say ,
God save king Solomon .
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Then ye shall come up after him ,
that he may come and sit upon my throne ;
for he shall be king in my stead :
and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king ,
and said ,
Amen :
the LORD God of my lord the king say so too .
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As the LORD hath been with my lord the king ,
even so be he with Solomon ,
and make #
his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David .
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So Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and the Cherethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
went down ,
and caused Solomon to ride upon king Davids mule ,
and brought him to Gihon .
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And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle ,
and anointed Solomon .
And they blew the trumpet ;
and all the people said ,
God save king Solomon .
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And all the people came up after him ,
and the people piped with pipes ,
and rejoiced with great joy ,
so that the earth rent with the sound of them .
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And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating .
And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet ,
he said ,
Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar ?
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And while he yet spake ,
behold ,
Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came :
and Adonijah said unto him ,
Come in ;
for thou art a valiant man # #
Iysh-Chayil #,
and bringest #
good tidings .
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And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah ,
Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king .
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And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and the Cherethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
and they have caused him to ride upon the kings mule :
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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon :
and they are come up from thence rejoicing ,
so that the city rang again .
This is the noise that ye have heard .
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And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom .
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And moreover the kings servants came to bless our lord king David ,
saying ,
God make the name of Solomon better than thy name ,
and make #
his throne greater than thy throne .
And the king bowed himself upon the bed .
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And also thus said the king ,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
which hath given one to sit on my throne this day ,
mine eyes even seeing it .
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And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid ,
and rose up ,
and went every man his way .
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And Adonijah feared because of Solomon ,
and arose ,
and went ,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar .
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And it was told Solomon ,
saying ,
Behold ,
Adonijah feareth king Solomon :
for ,
lo ,
he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar ,
saying ,
Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword .
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And Solomon said ,
If he will shew himself a worthy man ,
there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth :
but if wickedness shall be found in him ,
he shall die .
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So king Solomon sent ,
and they brought him down from the altar .
And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon :
and Solomon said unto him ,
Go to thine house .
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Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die ;
and he charged Solomon his son ,
saying ,
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I go the way of all the earth :
be thou strong therefore ,
and shew thyself a man ;
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And keep the charge of the LORD thy God ,
to walk in his ways ,
to keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his judgments ,
and his testimonies ,
as it is written in the law of Moses ,
that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest ,
and whithersoever thou turnest thyself :
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That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me ,
saying ,
If thy children take heed to their way ,
to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul ,
there shall not fail thee (
said he )
a man on the throne of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me ,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel Yisra #
el #,
unto Abner the son of Ner ,
and unto Amasa the son of Jether ,
whom he slew ,
and shed the blood of war in peace ,
and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins ,
and in his shoes that were on his feet .
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Do therefore according to thy wisdom ,
and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace .
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But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite Gil #
adiy #,
and let them be of those that eat at thy table :
for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother .
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And ,
behold ,
thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera ,
a Benjamite Ben-y @
miyniy #
of Bahurim ,
which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim :
but he came down to meet me at Jordan ,
and I sware to him by the LORD ,
saying ,
I will not put thee to death with the sword .
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless :
for thou art a wise man ,
and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him ;
but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood .
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So David slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in the city of David .
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty #
arba #
iym #
years :
seven years reigned he in Hebron ,
and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem .
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Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father ;
and his kingdom was established greatly m @#
od #.
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And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
the mother of Solomon .
And she said ,
Comest thou peaceably ?
And he said ,
Peaceably .
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He said moreover ,
I have somewhat to say unto thee .
And she said ,
Say on .
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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 brothers :
for it was his from the LORD .
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And now I ask one petition of thee ,
deny me not .
And she said unto him ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Speak ,
I pray thee ,
unto Solomon the king , (
for he will not say #
thee nay ,)
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife .
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And Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
said ,
Well ;
I will speak for thee unto the king .
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Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #
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 kings mother ;
and she sat on his right hand .
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Then she said ,
I desire one small petition of thee ;
I pray thee ,
say #
me not nay .
And the king said unto her ,
Ask on ,
my mother :
for I will not say #
thee nay .
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And she said ,
Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife .
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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 .
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Then king Solomon sware by the LORD ,
saying ,
God do so to me ,
and more also ,
if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life .
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Now therefore ,
as the LORD liveth ,
which hath established me ,
and set me on the throne of David my father ,
and who hath made me an house ,
as he promised ,
Adonijah shall be put to death this day .
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And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ;
and he fell upon him that he died .
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And unto Abiathar the priest said the king ,
Get thee to Anathoth ,
unto thine own fields ;
for thou art worthy of death :
but I will not at this time put thee to death ,
because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father ,
and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted .
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So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD ;
that he might fulfil the word of the LORD ,
which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .
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Then tidings came to Joab Yow #
ab #:
for Joab had turned after Adonijah ,
though he turned not after Absalom .
And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD ,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar .
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And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD ;
and ,
behold ,
he is by the altar .
Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
saying ,
Go ,
fall upon him .
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And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the king ,
Come forth .
And he said ,
Nay ;
but I will die here .
And Benaiah brought #
the king word again ,
saying ,
Thus said Joab Yow #
ab #,
and thus he answered me .
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And the king said unto him ,
Do as he hath said ,
and fall upon him ,
and bury him ;
that thou mayest take away the innocent blood ,
which Joab shed ,
from me ,
and from the house of my father .
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And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head ro #
sh #,
who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he ,
and slew them with the sword ,
my father David not knowing thereof ,
to wit ,
Abner the son of Ner ,
captain of the host of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and Amasa the son of Jether ,
captain of the host of Judah .
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Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab Yow #
ab #,
and upon the head of his seed for ever :
but upon David ,
and upon his seed ,
and upon his house ,
and upon his throne ,
shall there be peace for ever from the LORD .
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So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up ,
and fell upon him ,
and slew him :
and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness .
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And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host :
and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei Shim #
iy #,
and said unto him ,
Build thee an house in Jerusalem ,
and dwell there ,
and go not forth thence any whither .
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For it shall be ,
that on the day thou goest out ,
and passest over the brook Kidron ,
thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die :
thy blood shall be upon thine own head ro #
sh #.
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And Shimei said unto the king ,
The saying is good :
as my lord the king hath said ,
so will thy servant do .
And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days .
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And it came to pass at the end of three years ,
that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath .
And they told Shimei Shim #
iy #,
saying ,
Behold ,
thy servants be in Gath .
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And Shimei arose ,
and saddled his ass ,
and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants :
and Shimei went ,
and brought his servants from Gath .
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And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath ,
and was come again .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei Shim #
iy #,
and said unto him ,
Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD ,
and protested unto thee ,
saying ,
Know for a certain ,
on the day thou goest out ,
and walkest abroad any whither ,
that thou shalt surely die ?
and thou saidst unto me ,
The word that I have heard is good .
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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD ,
and the commandment that I have charged thee with ?
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The king said moreover to Shimei Shim #
iy #,
Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to ,
that thou didst to David my father :
therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head ro #
sh #;
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And king Solomon shall be blessed ,
and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever .
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So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ;
which went out ,
and fell upon him ,
that he died .
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon .
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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and took Pharaohs daughter ,
and brought her into the city of David ,
until he had made an end of building his own house ,
and the house of the LORD ,
and the wall of Jerusalem round about .
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Only the people sacrificed in high places ,
because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD ,
until those days .
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And Solomon loved the LORD ,
walking in the statutes of David his father :
only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places .
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there ;
for that was the great high place :
a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar .
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night :
and God said ,
Ask what I shall give thee .
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And Solomon said ,
Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy ,
according as he walked before thee in truth ,
and in righteousness ,
and in uprightness of heart with thee ;
and thou hast kept for him this great kindness ,
that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne ,
as it is this day .
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And now ,
O LORD my God ,
thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father :
and I am but a little child na #
ar #:
I know not how to go out or come in .
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And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen ,
a great people ,
that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude .
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people ,
that I may discern between good and bad :
for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ?
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And the speech pleased the Lord ,
that Solomon had asked this thing .
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And God said unto him ,
Because thou hast asked this thing ,
and hast not asked for thyself long life ;
neither hast asked riches for thyself ,
nor hast asked the life of thine enemies ;
but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment ;
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Behold ,
I have done according to thy words :
lo ,
I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart ;
so that there was none like thee before thee ,
neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee .
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And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked ,
both riches ,
and honour :
so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days .
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And if thou wilt walk in my ways ,
to keep my statutes and my commandments ,
as thy father David did walk ,
then I will lengthen thy days .
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And Solomon awoke ;
and ,
behold ,
it was a dream .
And he came to Jerusalem ,
and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD ,
and offered up burnt offerings ,
and offered peace offerings ,
and made a feast to all his servants .
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Then came there two women ,
that were harlots ,
unto the king ,
and stood before him .
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And the one woman said ,
O my lord ,
I and this woman dwell in one house ;
and I was delivered of a child with her in the house .
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And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered ,
that this woman was delivered also :
and we were together ;
there was no stranger with us in the house ,
save we two in the house .
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And this womans child died in the night ;
because she overlaid it .
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And she arose at midnight tavek #,
and took my son from beside me ,
while thine handmaid slept ,
and laid it in her bosom ,
and laid her dead child in my bosom .
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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck ,
behold ,
it was dead :
but when I had considered it in the morning ,
behold ,
it was not my son ,
which I did bear .
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And the other woman said ,
Nay ;
but the living is my son ,
and the dead is thy son .
And this said ,
No ;
but the dead is thy son ,
and the living is my son .
Thus they spake before the king .
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Then said the king ,
The one saith ,
This is my son that liveth ,
and thy son is the dead :
and the other saith ,
Nay ;
but thy son is the dead ,
and my son is the living .
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And the king said ,
Bring me a sword .
And they brought a sword before the king .
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And the king said ,
Divide the living child in two ,
and give half to the one ,
and half to the other .
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Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king ,
for her bowels yearned upon her son ,
and she said ,
O my lord ,
give her the living child ,
and in no wise slay it .
But the other said ,
Let it be neither mine nor thine ,
but divide it .
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Then the king answered and said ,
Give her the living child ,
and in no wise slay it :
she is the mother thereof .
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And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged ;
and they feared the king :
for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him ,
to do judgment .
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So king Solomon was king over all Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And these were the princes which he had ;
Azariah the son of Zadok the priest ,
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Elihoreph and Ahiah ,
the sons of Shisha ,
scribes ;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud ,
the recorder .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host :
and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests :
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And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers :
and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer ,
and the kings friend re #
eh #:
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And Ahishar was over the household :
and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute .
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And Solomon had twelve sh @
nayim #
officers over all Israel Yisra #
el #,
which provided victuals for the king and his household :
each man his month in a year made provision .
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And these are their names :
The son of Hur Ben-Chuwr #,
in mount Ephraim :
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The son of Dekar Ben-D ,
in Makaz ,
and in Shaalbim Sha #
albiym #,
and Bethshemesh Beyth ,
and Elonbethhanan #
Eylown Beyth :
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The son of Hesed Ben-C ,
in Aruboth ;
to him pertained Sochoh ,
and all the land of Hepher :
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The son of Abinadab Ben -#
Abiynadab #,
in all the region of Dor ;
which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baana the son of Ahilud ;
to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo ,
and all Bethshean Beyth Sh @#
an #,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel Yizr @#
e #
l #,
from Bethshean Beythto Abelmeholah #
Abel ,
even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam Yoqm @#
am #:
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The son of Geber Ben-Geber #,
in Ramothgilead #
H7433 ;
to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh ,
which are in Gilead Gil #
ad #;
to him also pertained the region of Argob ,
which is in Bashan ,
threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars :
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim :
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Ahimaaz #
Achiyma #
ats #
was in Naphtali ;
he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth B @#
alowth #:
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah ,
in Issachar :
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Shimei the son of Elah ,
in Benjamin :
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Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead Gil #
ad #,
in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites ,
and of Og king of Bashan ;
and he was the only officer which was in the land .
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Judah and Israel were many ,
as the sand which is by the sea in multitude ,
eating and drinking ,
and making merry .
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And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines ,
and unto the border of Egypt :
they brought presents ,
and served Solomon all the days of his life .
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And Solomons provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour ,
and threescore measures of meal ,
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Ten fat oxen ,
and twenty oxen out of the pastures r @#
iy #,
and an hundred sheep tso #
n #,
beside harts ,
and roebucks ,
and fallowdeer ,
and fatted fowl .
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For he had dominion over all the gion on this side the river ,
from Tiphsah even to Azzah ,
over all the kings on this side the river :
and he had peace on all sides #
round about him .
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And Judah and Israel dwelt safely ,
every man under his vine and under his fig tree t @#
en #,
from Dan even to Beersheba B @#
er ,
all the days of Solomon .
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And Solomon had forty #
arba #
iym #
thousand stalls of horses for his chariots ,
and twelve sh @
nayim #
thousand horsemen .
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And those officers provided victual for king Solomon ,
and for all that came unto king Solomons table ,
every man in his month :
they lacked nothing .
*
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were ,
every man according to his charge .
*
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much ,
and largeness of heart ,
even as the sand that is on the sea shore .
*
And Solomons wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country ,
and all the wisdom of Egypt .
*
For he was wiser than all men ;
than Ethan the Ezrahite ,
and Heman ,
and Chalcol ,
and Darda ,
the sons of Mahol :
and his fame was in all nations round about .
*
And he spake three thousand proverbs :
and his songs were a thousand and five .
*
And he spake of trees ,
from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall :
he spake also of beasts ,
and of fowl ,
and of creeping things ,
and of fishes .
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And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon ,
from all kings of the earth ,
which had heard of his wisdom .
*
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon ;
for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father :
for Hiram was ever a lover of David .
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