CAB(i)
13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and bowed down to her. And she said, Do you enter peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14 He said, I have business with you. And she said to him, Speak on.
15 And he said to her, You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel turned their face toward me for a king; but the kingdom was turned from me and became my brother's; for it was appointed to him from the Lord.
16 And now I make one request of you, do not turn away your face. And Bathsheba said to him, Speak on.
17 And he said to her, Speak to King Solomon, for he will not turn away his face from you, and let him give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.
18 And Bathsheba said, Very well; I will speak to the king for you.
19 And Bathsheba went in to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and kissed her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the king, and she sat on his right hand.
20 And she said to him, I ask of you one little request; turn not away my face from you. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject you.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.
22 And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why have you asked for Abishag for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my older brother, and he has for his companion Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Zeruiah the commander-in-chief.
23 And King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if it be not that Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life.
24 And now as the Lord lives who has established me, and set me on the throne of my father David, and He has made me a house, as the Lord spoke, this day shall Adonijah be put to death.
25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he killed him, and Adonijah died in that day.