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16 So Bathsheba bowed down and paid respect to the king. And the king said, “[a]What do you wish?” 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by the Lord your God to your maidservant, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall certainly be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.’ 18 But now, behold, Adonijah is [acting as] king; and now [as things stand], my lord the king, you do not know it.

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  1. 1 Kings 1:16 Lit What to you.

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