Berean Standard Bible

1 Kings 2:16

“So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.”

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¹⁴Then he said, “I have something to tell you.” “Say it,” she answered.

¹⁵“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

¹⁶So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

¹⁷Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

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

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