1 Kings 2:18 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Kings 2:18

16 Now I ask one petition of you; do not¹ deny me.” And she said to him, “Say it.”

17 Then he said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me ^aAbishag the Shunammite as wife.”

18 So Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak for you to the king.”

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.”

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Adonijah . . . came to Bath-sheba—Her question to him betrays an apprehension which his recent conduct might well warrant; but his pious acknowledgment of the divine will seemed apparently to indicate so entire an acquiescence in the settlement of the succession [I Kings 2:15], that, in her womanly simplicity, she perceived not the deep cunning and evil design that was concealed under his request and readily undertook to promote his wishes.

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