Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”
She said to him, “Say on.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 2:16 in context
1 Kings 2:13–19
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”
He said, “Peaceably.
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He said moreover, I have something to tell you.”
She said, “Say on.”
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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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Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”
She said to him, “Say on.”
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He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
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Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
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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.
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