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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon .
And she said ,
Do thou come peaceably ?
And he said ,
Peaceably .
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He said moreover ,
I have something to say to thee .
And she said ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Thou know that the kingdom was mine ,
and that all Israel set their faces on me ,
that I should reign .
However the kingdom is turned about ,
and has become my brother '
s ,
for it was his from LORD .
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And now I ask one petition of thee ;
do not deny me .
And she said to him ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Speak ,
I pray thee ,
to Solomon the king (
for he will not say no thee ),
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife .
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And Bathsheba said ,
Well ,
I will speak for thee to the king .
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Bathsheba therefore 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 caused a throne to be set for the king '
s mother .
And she sat on his
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Then she said ,
I ask one small petition of thee ;
do not deny me .
And the king said to her ,
Ask on ,
my mother ,
for I will not deny thee .
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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 to his mother ,
And why do thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah ?
Ask for him the kingdom also ,
for he is my elder brother ,
even for him ,
and for Abiathar the priest ,
and for Joab the son of
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Then king Solomon swore by LORD ,
saying ,
God do so to me ,
and more also ,
if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life .
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Now therefore as LORD lives ,
who has established me ,
and set me on the throne of David my father ,
and who has made me a house as he promised ,
surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day .
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And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and he fell upon him so that he died .
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And the king said to Abiathar the priest ,
Get thee to Anathoth ,
to thine own fields ,
for thou are worthy of death .
But I will not at this time put thee to death ,
because thou bore the ark of lord LORD before David my father ,
and be
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So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to LORD ,
that he might fulfill the word of LORD ,
which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .
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And the news came to Joab ,
for Joab had turned after Adonijah ,
though he did not turn after Absalom .
And Joab fled to the tent of LORD ,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar .
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And it was told king Solomon ,
Joab has fled to the tent of 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 tent of LORD ,
and said to him ,
Thus says the king ,
Come forth .
And he said ,
No ,
but 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 ,
that thou may take away the blood ,
which Joab shed without cause ,
from me and from my father '
s house .
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And LORD will return his blood upon his own head ,
because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he ,
and killed them with the sword ,
and my father David did not know it , [
namely ],
Abner the son of Ner ,
captain of the a
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So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab ,
and upon the head of his seed forever .
But to David ,
and to his seed ,
and to his house ,
and to his throne ,
there shall be peace forever from LORD .
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Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up ,
and fell upon him ,
and killed 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 army .
And the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei ,
and said to him ,
Build for thee a house in Jerusalem ,
and dwell there ,
and go not forth from there anywhere .
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For on the day thou go out ,
and pass over the brook Kidron ,
know thou for certain that thou shall 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 of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish ,
son of Maacah ,
king of Gath .
And they told Shimei ,
saying ,
Behold ,
thy servants are in Gath .
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And Shimei arose ,
and saddled his donkey ,
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 ,
and said to him ,
Did I not adjure thee by LORD ,
and protest to thee ,
saying ,
Know for certain ,
that on the day thou go out ,
and walk abroad anywhere ,
thou shall surely die ?
And thou said to
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Why then have thou not kept the oath of LORD ,
and the commandment that I have charged thee with ?
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The king said moreover to Shimei ,
Thou know all the iniquity which thy heart is privy to ,
what thou did to David my father .
Therefore LORD shall return thy iniquity upon thine own head .
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But king Solomon shall be blessed ,
and the throne of David shall be established before LORD forever .
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So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada .
And he went out ,
and fell upon him so that he died .
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon .