⁸ I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more.

⁶ His father had never at any time reprimanded him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.^(A)

⁷ He conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with the priest Abiathar, and they supported Adonijah.^(A)