1 Raja-raja 2:19-25

2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet ¹  her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, ²  and she sat at his right hand. 2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ³  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁴  He said, ⁵  “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? ⁶  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, ⁷  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ⁸  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 ⁹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 2:25 King Solomon then sent ¹⁰  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ¹¹ 

[2:19]  ¹ tn Or “meet.”

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

[2:20]  ³ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[2:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[2:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:25]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

[2:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”