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be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And keep the charge of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> may fulfill His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,’ He said, ‘you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, <i>and</i> what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt that <i>was</i> around his waist, and on his sandals that <i>were</i> on his feet. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore do according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to the grave in peace.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“And see, <i>you have</i> with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you <i>are</i> a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”</span></p> <h3> Death of David</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-10"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So David <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The period that David reigned over Israel <i>was</i> forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established.</span></p> <h3> Solomon Executes Adonijah</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-13"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. So she said, “Do you come peaceably?”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-13">And he said, “Peaceably.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Moreover he said, “I have something <i>to say</i> to you.”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-14">And she said, “Say it.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then he said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had set their expectations on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom has been turned over, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now I ask one petition of you; do not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>deny me.”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-16">And she said to him, “Say it.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then he said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak for you to the king.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and bowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king’s mother; so she sat at his right hand. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then she said, “I desire one small petition of you; do not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>refuse me.”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-20">And the king said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also—for he <i>is</i> my older brother—for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then King Solomon swore by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, saying, “May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life! </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now therefore, <i>as</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>house for me, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.</span></p> <h3> Abiathar Exiled, Joab Executed</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-26"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>you <i>are</i> deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span> before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, that he might fulfill the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and took hold of the horns of the altar. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>; there <i>he is,</i> by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out!’ ”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-30">And he said, “No, but I will die here.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then the king said to him, “Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will return his <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword—Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know <i>it.</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his descendants forever. But upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, there shall be peace forever from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.</span></p> <h3> Shimei Executed</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-2-36"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>blood shall be on your own head.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And Shimei said to the king, “The saying <i>is</i> good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do.” So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now it happened at the end of three years, that two slaves of Shimei ran away to Achish the son of Maachah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Look, your slaves <i>are</i> in Gath!” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and travel anywhere, you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ‘The word I have heard <i>is</i> good.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Why then have you not kept the oath of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> and the commandment that I gave you?” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know, as your heart acknowledges, all the wickedness that you did to my father David; therefore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will return your wickedness on your own head. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>But King Solomon <i>shall be</i> blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> forever.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/2-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-8772a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:1">1 Kings 2:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>commanded</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8781b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:10">1 Kings 2:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Died and joined his ancestors</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8787c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:16">1 Kings 2:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>turn away the face</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8791d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:20">1 Kings 2:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>turn away the face</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8795e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:24">1 Kings 2:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Royal dynasty</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8797f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:26">1 Kings 2:26</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>you are a man of death</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8803g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:32">1 Kings 2:32</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>bloodshed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8808h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 2:37">1 Kings 2:37</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>bloodshed</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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