14. Then he said, “May I have a word with you?” Then she said, “Go on.”
15. He said, “You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother’s, for it was from Yahweh for him to have it.
16. Now one request I am asking from you, and you must not refuse me.” Then she said to him, “Go on.”
17. He said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife.”
18. Then Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak to the king concerning you.”
19. Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.
20. She said, “I have one small request I am asking from you. Do not refuse me.” The king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
21. Then she said, “Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”