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Has my lord the king let this happen without informing your servant who should sit on the throne after my lord the king?”
- 1 Kings 1:27
Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba for me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.
- 1 Kings 1:28
Then King David said, “Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.
- 1 Kings 1:32
“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:33
Then you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”
- 1 Kings 1:35
Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”
- 1 Kings 1:37
“Not at all,” Jonathan replied. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
- 1 Kings 1:43
Moreover, Solomon has taken his seat on the royal throne.
- 1 Kings 1:46
But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.
- 1 Kings 1:50
So King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.”
- 1 Kings 1:53
Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
- 1 Kings 2:9
Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
- 1 Kings 2:17