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15 So Bathsheba went to the king in his private room. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to him.[a] 16 Bathsheba knelt and bowed down to the king, and the king asked her, “What do you wish?”

17 “Your majesty,” she replied, “you promised your servant in the name of[b] the Lord your God, ‘Your son Solomon will certainly become king after me and will sit on my throne.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:15 Lit. to the king
  2. 1 Kings 1:17 The Heb. lacks the name of