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And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon .
And she said ,
Comest thou peaceably ?
And he said ,
Peaceably .
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And he said ,
I have something to say to thee .
And she said ,
Speak .
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And he said ,
Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine ,
and all Israel had set their faces on me that I should reign ;
but the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother '
s ,
for it was his from Jehovah .
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And now I ask one petition of thee ;
refuse me not .
And she said to him ,
Speak .
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And he said ,
Speak ,
I pray thee ,
to Solomon the king --
for he will not refuse thee --
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife .
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And Bathsheba said ,
Well ,
I will speak for thee to the king .
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And Bathsheba went to king Solomon ,
to speak to him for Adonijah .
And the king rose up to meet her ,
and bowed himself to her ,
and sat down on his throne ;
and he caused a throne to be set for the king '
s mother ,
and she sat on his right hand .
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Then she said ,
I desire one small petition of thee ;
refuse me not .
And the king said to her ,
Ask ,
my mother ,
for I will not refuse thee .
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And she said ,
Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother as wife .
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And king Solomon answered and said to 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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And king Solomon swore by Jehovah saying ,
God do so to me ,
and more also , --
Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life !
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And now [
as ]
Jehovah liveth ,
who has established me ,
and set me on the throne of David my father ,
and who has made me a 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 ;
who fell on him ,
that he died .
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And the king said to Abiathar the priest ,
Go to Anathoth ,
to thine own fields ;
for thou art worthy of death ;
but I will not at this time put thee to death ,
because thou didst bear the ark of Adonai Jehovah before David my father ,
and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted .
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And Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah ,
to fulfil the word of Jehovah ,
which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .
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And the report came to Joab (
for Joab had turned after Adonijah ,
though he had not turned after Absalom );
and Joab fled to the tent of Jehovah ,
and caught hold of the horns of the altar .
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And it was told king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Jehovah ;
and behold ,
he is by the altar .
And Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
saying ,
Go ,
fall on him .
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And Benaiah came to the tent of Jehovah and said to him ,
Thus saith the king :
Come forth .
And he said ,
No ;
for I will die here .
And Benaiah brought the king word again ,
saying ,
Thus said Joab ,
and thus he answered me .
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And the king said to him ,
Do as he has said ,
and fall upon him ,
and bury him ;
and take away the innocent blood ,
which Joab shed ,
from me and from the house of my father .
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And Jehovah shall requite the blood which he shed upon his own head ,
because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he ,
and slew them with the sword ,
without my father David '
s knowledge :
Abner the son of Ner ,
captain of the host of Israel ,
and Amasa the son of Jether ,
captain of the host of Judah .
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And their blood shall be requited upon the head of Joab ,
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 Jehovah .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him ,
and put him to death ;
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 stead over the host ;
and Zadok the priest the king put in the stead of Abiathar .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei ,
and said to him ,
Build thee a house in Jerusalem ,
and abide there ,
and go not forth thence anywhere .
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And it shall be that on the day thou goest forth ,
and passest over the torrent of Kidron ,...
know for certain that thou shalt surely die :
thy blood shall be upon thine own head .
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And Shimei said to the king ,
The saying is good :
as my lord the king has 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 servants of Shimei '
s ran away to Achish son of Maachah ,
king of Gath .
And they told Shimei saying ,
Behold ,
thy servants are in Gath .
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Then 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 had come again .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei ,
and said to him ,
Did I not make thee swear by Jehovah ,
and protest to thee ,
saying ,
Know for certain ,
that on the day thou goest forth ,
and walkest abroad anywhere ,
thou shalt surely die ?
and thou saidst to me ,
The word that I have heard is good .
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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah ,
and the commandment that I charged thee with ?
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And the king said to Shimei ,
Thou knowest all the wickedness of which thy heart is conscious ,
which thou didst to David my father ;
and Jehovah returns thy wickedness upon thine own head ;
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and king Solomon shall be blessed ,
and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah for ever .
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And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ;
who went out and fell upon him ,
and he died .
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon .