16. Would you do me a favour?”“What do you want?” Bathsheba asked.
17. “Please ask Solomon to let me marry Abishag. He won't say no to you.”
18. “All right,” she said. “I'll ask him.”
19. When Bathsheba went to see Solomon, he stood up to meet her, then bowed low. He sat back down and had another throne brought in, so his mother could sit at his right side.
20. Bathsheba sat down and then asked, “Would you do me a small favour?”Solomon replied, “Mother, just tell me what you want, and I will do it.”
21. “Allow your brother Adonijah to marry Abishag,” she answered.