1 Raja-raja 2:17-25

2:17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.” ¹  2:18 Bathsheba replied, “That’s fine, ²  I’ll speak to the king on your behalf.”

2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet ³  her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, ⁴  and she sat at his right hand. 2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁵  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁶  He said, ⁷  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.” 2:21 She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.” 2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁸  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, ⁹  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ¹⁰  2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹¹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 2:25 King Solomon then sent ¹²  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ¹³ 

[2:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”

[2:18]  ² tn Heb “[It is] good!”

[2:19]  ³ tn Or “meet.”

[2:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[2:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[2:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:25]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

[2:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”