The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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[h=1](1 Kings 2:11): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

 

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[FONT=&quot][h=1](1 Kings 2:12): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]12 And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.[/FONT]


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[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:13 (NIV)

Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come peacefully?”


He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:14 (NIV)

Then he added, “I have something to say to you.”


“You may say it,” she replied.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:15 (NIV)

“As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:16 (NIV)


Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.”


“You may make it,” she said.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:17 (NIV)


So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:18 (NIV)


“Very well,” Bathsheba replied, “I will speak to the king for you.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 2:19 (KJV)
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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

[h=1]1 Kings 2:20 (NIV)[/h]
“I have one small request to make of you,” she said. “Do not refuse me.”

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Kings 2:20 continued...
New International Version (NIV)

The king replied, “Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you.”

And now,

1 Kings 2:21
New International Version (NIV)

So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 2:22 (KJV)
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.

 

[Shamah]

1 Kings 2:23, "2:23, "And Sovereign Shelomoh swore by יהוה, saying, “Elohim does so to me, and more also, if Aḏoniyahu has not spoken this word against his own life!"

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:24 (NIV)

And now, as surely as the Lord lives—he who has established me securely on the throne of my father David and has founded a dynasty for me as he promised—Adonijah shall be put to death today!”

 

[posthuman]

So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
and he fell upon him so that he died.
(1 Kings 2:25 NASB)​

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 2:26 (NIV)

To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 2:27 (KJV)
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.

 

[Shamah]

1 Kings 2:28, "And news came to Yo’aḇ, for Yo’aḇ had turned aside after Aḏoniyah, though he did not turn aside after Aḇshalom. And Yo’aḇ fled to the Tent of יהוה, and took hold of the horns of the altar."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 2:29 (KJV)
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.

 

[slave]

(1 Kings 2:30): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

30 So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “Thus the king has said, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus spoke Joab, and thus he answered me.”