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1 Kings 2:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Kings 2:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”(A) 18 Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king on your behalf.”
19 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king rose to meet her and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne and had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.(B)
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