1Kings:2:13-46
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And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon .
And she said ,
Come you peaceably ?
And he said ,
Peaceably .
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He said moreover ,
I have somewhat to say unto you .
And she said ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
You know that the kingdom was mine ,
and that all Israel set their faces on me ,
that I should reign :
nevertheless the kingdom is turned about ,
and is become my brother '
s :
for it was his from the LORD .
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And now I ask one petition of you ,
deny me not .
And she said unto him ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Speak ,
I pray you ,
unto Solomon the king , (
for he will not say you nay ,)
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife .
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And Bathsheba said ,
Well ;
I will speak for you unto the king .
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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 .
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Then she said ,
I desire one small petition of you ;
I pray you ,
say me not nay .
And the king said unto her ,
Ask on ,
my mother :
for I will not say you nay .
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And she said ,
Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother to wife .
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And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother ,
And why do you 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 swore 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 lives ,
which has established me ,
and set me on the throne of David my father ,
and who has 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 you to Anathoth ,
unto yours own fields ;
for you are worthy of death :
but I will not at this time put you to death ,
because you bare the ark of the LORD God before David my father ,
and because you have 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 fulfill the word of the LORD ,
which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .
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Then tidings came to Joab :
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 says the king ,
Come forth .
And he said ,
Nay ;
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 unto him ,
Do as he has said ,
and fall upon him ,
and bury him ;
that you may 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 ,
who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he ,
and slew them with the sword ,
my father David not knowing thereof ,
to know ,
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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Their blood shall therefore return 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 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 ,
and said unto him ,
Build you an house in Jerusalem ,
and dwell there ,
and go not forth thence any where .
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For it shall be ,
that on the day you go out ,
and pass over the brook Kidron ,
you shall know for certain that you shall surely die :
your blood shall be upon yours own head .
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And Shimei said unto the king ,
The saying is good :
as my lord the king has said ,
so will your 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 ,
saying ,
Behold ,
your 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 ,
and said unto him ,
Did I not make you to swear by the LORD ,
and protested unto you ,
saying ,
Know for a certain ,
on the day you go out ,
and walk abroad any where ,
that you shall surely die ?
and you said unto me ,
The word that I have heard is good .
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Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD ,
and the commandment that I have charged you with ?
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The king said moreover to Shimei ,
You know all the wickedness which yours heart is privy to ,
that you did to David my father :
therefore the LORD shall return your wickedness upon yours own head ;
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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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