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45;
45 But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will remain secure
before the Lord forever.” (9)
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44 The king also said to Shimei, “You know
in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the Lord will repay you for your wrongdoing. (8)
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35 The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada
over the army in Joab’s position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest. (8)
36 Then
the king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go
anywhere else.
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26 To Abiathar the priest the king said,
“Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you
to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared
all my father’s hardships.”
(8)
27 So
Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.
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17 So he continued, “Please ask King
Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.” (8)
18 “Very
well,” Bathsheba replied, “I will speak to the king for you.”
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8 “And remember, you have with you
Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses
on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I
swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will
not put you to death by the sword.’ (8)
9 But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will
know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”
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39 But three years later, two of Shimei’s
slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told,
“Your slaves are in Gath.”
(3)
40 At
this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves.
So Shimei went away and brought the slaves back from Gath.
41 When
Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned,
42 the
king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord and warn you, ‘On the day you leave
to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die’? At that time you said to
me, ‘What you say is good. I will obey.’
43 Why then did you not keep your oath to the Lord
and obey the command I gave you?”
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30 So Benaiah entered the tent of the Lord and said to Joab, “The king says,
‘Come out!’” But he answered, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the
king, “This is how Joab answered me.”
(3)
31 Then
the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and
so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab
shed.
32 The
Lord will repay him for the blood
he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and
killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of
Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better
men and more upright than he.
33 May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants
forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there
be the Lord’s peace forever.”
34 So
Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joab and killed him, and he was
buried at his home out in the country.
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21 So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite
be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.” (3)
22 King
Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for
Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him—after all, he is my
older brother—yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of
Zeruiah!”
23 Then
King Solomon swore by the Lord:
“May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if Adonijah does not pay with
his life for this request!
24 And
now, as surely as the Lord
lives—he who has established me securely on the throne of my father David and
has founded a dynasty for me as he promised—Adonijah shall be put to death
today!”
25 So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down
Adonijah and he died.
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12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his
father David, and his rule was firmly established. (3)
Solomon’s Throne Established
13 Now
Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. Bathsheba
asked him, “Do you come peacefully?” He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”
14 Then
he added, “I have something to say to you.” “You may say it,” she replied.
15 “As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me
as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for
it has come to him from the Lord.
16 Now
I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.” “You may make it,” she
said.
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3 and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in
obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations,
as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do
and wherever you go
(3)
4 and that the Lord may keep His
promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk
faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have
a successor on the throne of Israel.’
5 “Now
you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two
commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He
killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that
blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
6 Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go
down to the grave in peace.
7 “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and let them be
among those who eat at your table. They stood by me when I fled from your
brother Absalom.
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46 Then the king gave the order to Benaiah
son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down and he died. The
kingdom was now established in Solomon’s hands. (1)
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37 The day you leave and cross the Kidron
Valley, you can be sure you will die; your blood will be on your own head.” (1)
38 Shimei
answered the king, “What you say is good. Your servant will do as my lord the
king has said.” And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a long time.
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28 When the news reached Joab, who had
conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the
altar.
(1)
29 King
Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah
son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
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19 When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to
speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and
sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she
sat down at his right hand.
(1)
20 “I
have one small request to make of you,” she said. “Do not refuse me.” The king
replied, “Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you.”
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10 Then David rested with his ancestors and
was buried in the City of David.
(1)
11 He had reigned forty(4) years over Israel—seven(7) years in Hebron and thirty-three(33) in Jerusalem.
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David’s Charge to Solomon
2 When
the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. (1)
2 “I
am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a
man,
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