1 Kings 2:21

21 Then she said, "Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

1 Kings 2:21 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 2:21

And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah
thy brother to wife.
] For so Adonijah was by his father's side; and Bathsheba makes use of the relation, the more to move upon him to grant the request.

1 Kings 2:21 In-Context

19 Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.

20 She said, "I have one small request I am asking from you. Do {not refuse me}." The king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will {not refuse you}."

21 Then she said, "Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

22 King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "Why are you asking Abishag the Shunnamite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than I; and [ask] for him also Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."

23 Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn't spoken this thing at the expense of his life.