1 Kings 2:21-23

International Standard Version

²¹ So she asked him, “Give Abishag the Shunammite to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

²² But King Solomon replied to his mother, “Why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Why not ask me to give up the kingdom for him, since he’s my older brother, and why not ask^[a] for Abiathar the priest, and for Zeruiah’s son Joab?”

²³ Then King Solomon took this oath in the name of the Lord: “May God do so to me, and more besides, if Adonijah hasn’t endangered his life by bringing up this subject.