7. “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and let them be among those who eat at your table. They stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
8. “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.’
9. But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”
10. Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
11. He had reigned forty years over Israel—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.
12. So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.
13. Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come peacefully?” He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”
14. Then he added, “I have something to say to you.” “You may say it,” she replied.
15. “As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the Lord.
16. Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.” “You may make it,” she said.
17. So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
18. “Very well,” Bathsheba replied, “I will speak to the king for you.”
19. When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
20. “I have one small request to make of you,” she said. “Do not refuse me.” The king replied, “Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you.”
21. So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”