Solomon Executes Adonijah

13 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. So she said, z“Do you come peaceably?”

And he said, “Peaceably.” 14 Moreover he said, “I have something to say to you.”

And she said, “Say it.”

15 Then he said, “You know that the kingdom was amine, and all Israel had set their expectations on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom has been turned over, and has become my brother’s; for bit was his from the Lord. 16 Now I ask one petition of you; do not 3deny me.”

And she said to him, “Say it.”

17 Then he said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me cAbishag the Shunammite as wife.”

18 So Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak for you to the king.”

19 Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and dbowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king’s mother; eso she sat at his right hand. 20 Then she said, “I desire one small petition of you; do not 4refuse me.”

And the king said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”

21 So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

22 And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also—for he is my folder brother—for him, and for gAbiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” 23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, h“May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life! 24 Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a 5house for me, as He ipromised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!”

25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of jBenaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.