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Wycliffe Bible

1 Kings 2:21

And sche seide, Abisag of Sunam be youun wijf to Adonye, thi brother.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Bath-Sheba (Bathsheba);   Intercession;   Shunammite;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altars;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Concubine;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Concubine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abner;   Bathsheba;   Ishbosheth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adonijah;   Court Systems;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Reuben;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abishag ;   Adonijah ;   Shimei ;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Talent;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bath'-Sheba,;   Concubine;   Shu'nammite, the,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abishag;   Heir;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abishag;   Adonijah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abishag;   Bilhah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”
Hebrew Names Version
She said, Let Avishag the Shunammite be given to Adoniyahu your brother as wife.
King James Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
English Standard Version
She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife."
New Century Version
So she said, "Allow Abishag the Shunammite to marry your brother Adonijah."
New English Translation
She said, "Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife."
Amplified Bible
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife."
New American Standard Bible
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."
Geneva Bible (1587)
She sayd then, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
Legacy Standard Bible
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."
Contemporary English Version
"Allow your brother Adonijah to marry Abishag," she answered.
Complete Jewish Bible
She said, "Let Avishag the Shunamit be given to Adoniyah your brother as his wife."
Darby Translation
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother as wife.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Bathsheba said, "Let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the woman from Shunem."
George Lamsa Translation
And she said to him, Let Abishag the Shilommite be given to Adonijah your brother to wife.
Good News Translation
She answered, "Let your brother Adonijah have Abishag as his wife."
Lexham English Bible
Then she said, "Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."
Literal Translation
And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah for a wife.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She saide: Let Abisag of Sunem be geuen thy brother Adonias to wyfe.
American Standard Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
Bible in Basic English
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She sayde: Let Abisag the Sunamite be geuen to Adonia thy brother to wyfe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.'
King James Version (1611)
And she saide, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adoniiah thy brother to wife.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she said, Let, I pray thee, Abisag the Somanite be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.
English Revised Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
Berean Standard Bible
So Bathsheba said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife."
Young's Literal Translation
And she saith, `Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.'
Update Bible Version
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.
World English Bible
She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.
New King James Version
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."
New Living Translation
"Then let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the girl from Shunem," she replied.
New Life Bible
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife."
New Revised Standard
She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother, to wife.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife.
Revised Standard Version
She said, "Let Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite be given to Adoni'jah your brother as his wife."
THE MESSAGE
She said, "Give Abishag the Shunammite to your brother Adonijah as his wife."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."

Contextual Overview

12 Forsothe Salomon sat on the trone of Dauid, his fadir, and his rewme was maad stidfast greetli. 13 And Adonye, sone of Agith, entride to Bersabee, modir of Salomon; and sche seide to hym, Whether thin entryng is pesible? And he answeride, It is pesible. 14 And he addide, A word of me is to thee. `To whom sche seide, Speke thou. 15 And he seide, Thou knowist that the rewme was myn, and al Israel purposide to make me in to king to hem; but the rewme is translatid, and is maad my brotheris; for of the Lord it is ordeyned to hym. 16 Now therfor Y preye of the oon axyng; schende thou not my face. And sche seide to hym, Speke thou. And he seide, Y preie, 17 that thou seie to Salomon the king; for he may not denye ony thing to thee; that he yyue to me Abisag of Sunam wijf. 18 And Bersabee seide, Wel, Y schal speke for thee to the kyng. 19 Therfor Bersabee cam to kyng Salomon, to speke to hym for Adonye; and the kyng roos ayens the comyng of hir, and worschipide hir, and `sat on his trone; and a trone was set to the modir of the kyng, and sche sat at his riyt side. 20 And sche seide to hym, Y preie of thee o litil axyng; schende thou not my face. And the kyng seide to hir, My modir, axe thou; for it is not leueful that Y turne awei thi face. 21 And sche seide, Abisag of Sunam be youun wijf to Adonye, thi brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let Abishag: 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:18 - Shunem 2 Samuel 3:7 - gone in 1 Kings 1:52 - wickedness Ecclesiastes 8:3 - stand

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
And whanne the sunne was gon doun, drede felde on Abram, and a greet hidousenesse and derk asaylide him.
1 Samuel 26:12
Dauid took the spere, and the cuppe of watir, that was at the heed of Saul, and thei yeden forth, and no man was that siy, and vndirstood, and wakide, but alle men slepten; for the sleep of the Lord `hadde feld on hem.
Job 4:13
In the hidousnesse of `nyytis siyt, whanne heuy sleep is wont to occupie men,
Job 33:15
God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.
Proverbs 19:15
Slouth bringith in sleep; and a negligent soule schal haue hungur.
Daniel 8:18
And whanne he spak to me, Y slood doun `plat to the erthe. And he touchide me, and settide me in my degree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. For so Adonijah was by his father's side; and Bathsheba makes use of the relation, the more to move upon him to grant the request.


 
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