1 Kings 2:21

21 So she said, "¹Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a 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 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.

20 Then she said, "I am making one small request of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you."

21 So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."

22 King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom -for he is my older brother -even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!"

23 Then King Solomon swore by the LORD , saying, "May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 1:3, 4