15 So Bathsheba went in to the king in the bedroom. Now (A)the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king. 16 Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself [a]before the king. And the king said, “What [b]do you wish?” 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘(B)Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.’

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