OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

1 Kings 2:12

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Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

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1 Kings 2:9–15

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Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

10

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

11

The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

13

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”

He said, “Peaceably.

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.

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