1 Kings 2:19
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1 Kings 2:19
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So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.
1 Kings 2:20
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Then she said, "I am making one small request of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you."
1 Kings 2:21
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So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."
1 Kings 2:22
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King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom--for he is my older brother--even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!"
1 Kings 2:23
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Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
1 Kings 2:24
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~"Now therefore, as the 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 today."
1 Kings 2:25
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So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him so that he died.
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