1 Kings 1:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 So Bathsheba visited the king in his room. The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunamite was caring for the king.[a] 16 Bathsheba bowed in homage to the king. The king said to her, “What do you wish?”[b] 17 She answered him: “My lord, you swore to your servant by the Lord, your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me; it is he who shall sit upon my throne.’
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- 1:15 Entering the king’s chambers, Bathsheba confronts two realities: he is very old; and she herself, the woman for whom David once committed adultery and murder, has been replaced at the king’s side and in his bed.
- 1:16 Throughout 1 Kgs 1 the key question is “Who shall be king (malak)?” David’s feeble, two-syllable question to Bathsheba is an ironic echo of that key word: “What do you wish?” renders the Heb. mahlak?
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