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1 Kings 2:21
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19 Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and abowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king’s mother; bso she sat at his right hand.  
20 Then she said, “I desire one small petition of you; do not1 refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”  
21 So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
22 And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also—for he is my aolder brother—for him, and for bAbiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”  
23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, a“May 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 confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a1 house for me, as He apromised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!”  
25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of aBenaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.  

Abiathar Exiled, Joab Executed

26 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to aAnathoth, to your own fields, for1 you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, bbecause you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.”  
27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might afulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.  
Verse Comparison: 1 Kings 2:21

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American Standard Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

Amplified® Bible
She said, Give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah your brother to be his wife.

Contemporary English Version
"Allow your brother Adonijah to marry Abishag," she answered.

Darby English Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother as wife.

Good News Bible
She answered, "Let your brother Adonijah have Abishag as his wife."

King James Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

New American Standard Bible
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."

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

New King James Version
So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So she said, "Please give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah your brother as a wife."

Revised Standard Version
She said, "Let Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite be given to Adoni'jah your brother as his wife."

Young's Literal Translation
And she saith, `Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.'


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