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16 Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself [a]before the king. And the king said, “What [b]do you wish?” 17 And she said to him, “My lord, you swore to your maidservant by [c]Yahweh your God, saying, ‘(A)Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.’ 18 But now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:16 Lit to
  2. 1 Kings 1:16 Lit to you
  3. 1 Kings 1:17 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15