1 Kings 2:16   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me." "You may make it," she said.

1 Kings 2:17   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

So he continued, "Please ask King Solomon-he will not refuse you-to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife."

1 Kings 2:18   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

"Very well," Bathsheba replied, "I will speak to the king for you."

1 Kings 2:20   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

"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."

1 Kings 2:21   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah."

1 Kings 2:22   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him-after all, he is my older brother-yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!"

1 Kings 2:26   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father's hardships."

1 Kings 2:36   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

Then the king sent for Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.

1 Kings 2:37   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

The day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, you can be sure you will die; your blood will be on your own head."

1 Kings 2:38   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

Shimei answered the king, "What you say is good. Your servant will do as my lord the king has said." And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a long time.

1 Kings 2:39   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, "Your slaves are in Gath."

1 Kings 2:42   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the Lord and warn you, 'On the day you leave to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, 'What you say is good. I will obey.'

1 Kings 2:43   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

Why then did you not keep your oath to the Lord and obey the command I gave you?"

1 Kings 2:44   (Read all of 1 Kings 2)

The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the Lord will repay you for your wrongdoing.

1 Kings 3:5   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

1 Kings 3:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

1 Kings 3:7   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

"Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.

1 Kings 3:8   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 3:9   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"

1 Kings 3:11   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,

1 Kings 3:12   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

1 Kings 3:13   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for-both wealth and honor-so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.

1 Kings 3:14   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life."

1 Kings 3:20   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.