14. He said moreover, I have something to tell you.”She said, “Say on.”
15. He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the Lord.
16. Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”She said to him, “Say on.”
17. He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
18. Bathsheba said, “Alright. I will speak for you to the king.”
19. Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20. Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”
21. She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
22. King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “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 established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
25. King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
26. To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord the Lord’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”