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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.”  
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1 Kings 2:22

Ask for him the kingdom also - Bath-sheba had not seen anything dangerous or suspicious in Adonijah' s request. Solomon, on the contrary, takes alarm at once. To ask for Abishag was to ask for the kingdom. To the Oriental mind a monarch was so sacred, that whatever was brought near to him was thenceforth separate from common use. This sacred and separate character attached especially to the Royal harem. The inmates either remained widows for the rest of their lives, or became the wives of the deceased king' s successor. When a monarch was murdered, or dethroned, or succeeded by one whose title was doubtful, the latter alternative was almost always adopted (compare II Samuel 12:8; II Samuel 16:22). Public opinion so closely connected the title to the crown and the possession of the deceased monarch' s wives, that to have granted Adonijah' s request would have been the strongest encouragement to his pretensions. Solomon, seeing this, assumes that Adonijah cherishes a guilty purpose, that there has been a fresh plot, that Abiathar and Joab - Adonijah' s counselors in the former conspiracy I Kings 1:7 - are privy to it, and that the severest measures are necessary to crush the new treason.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 2:22:

1 Samuel 18:8
2 Samuel 8:16-18
2 Samuel 16:21
1 Kings 1:5
Jeremiah 38:22

 

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