Adonijah’s Foolish Request

13 Now Adonijah son of Haggith(A) came to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come peacefully?”

“Peacefully,” he replied,(B)

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22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”

He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel?” (A)

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17 David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”

18 Then the Spirit enveloped[a](A) Amasai,(B) chief of the Thirty, and he said:

We are yours, David,
we are with you, son of Jesse!
Peace, peace to you,
and peace to him who helps you,(C)
for your God helps you.

So David received them and made them leaders of his troops.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:18 Lit clothed; Jdg 6:34; 2Ch 24:20

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