1 Raja-raja 2:22

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi raja Salomo menjawab ibunya: "Mengapa engkau meminta hanya Abisag, gadis Sunem itu, untuk Adonia? Minta jugalah untuknya kedudukan raja! Bukankah dia saudaraku yang lebih tua, dan di pihaknya ada imam Abyatar dan Yoab, anak Zeruya?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi raja Salomo menjawab ibunya: "Mengapa engkau meminta hanya Abisag, gadis Sunem itu, untuk Adonia? Minta jugalah untuknya kedudukan raja! Bukankah dia saudaraku yang lebih tua, dan di pihaknya ada imam Abyatar dan Yoab, anak Zeruya?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut baginda raja Sulaiman kepada bunda baginda, katanya: Mengapa bundaku minta Abisaj, perempuan Sunami itu, akan Adonia? Pintalah juga sekerajaan ini akan dia, karena iapun abangku, yang tua dari padaku; bahkan, akan dia dan akan imam Abyatar dan akan Yoab bin Zeruyapun.

Contextual Overview

¹² Then sate Solomon vpon the seate of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was stablished mightyly. ¹³ And Adonia the sonne of Haggith came to Bethsabe the mother of Solomon, and she sayde: Comest thou peaceably? And he sayde, peaceably. ¹⁴ He sayde moreouer: I haue somwhat to say vnto thee. She sayd: Say on. ¹⁵ And he sayd: Thou knowest that the kingdome was myne, & that all Israel set their faces on me, that I shoulde raigne: howbeit, the kingdome is turned away, and geuen to my brother: for it is appoynted him of the Lorde. ¹⁶ And nowe I aske a petition of thee, deny me not. And she sayde vnto him: Say on. ¹⁷ And he said: Speake I pray thee, vnto Solomo the king (for he wil not say thee nay) that he geue me Abisag the Sunamite to wyfe. ¹⁸ And Bethsabe sayd: Wel, I wil speake for thee vnto the king. ¹⁹ Bethsabe therfore went vnto king Solomon, to speake vnto him for Adonia: And the king rose vp to meete her, and bowed him selfe vnto her, and sate hym downe on his seate, & there was a seate set for the kinges mother, & she sate on his right syde. ²⁰ Then she sayd: I desire a litle petition of thee, I pray thee say me not nay. And the king sayd vnto her: Aske on, my mother, for I wil not say thee nay. ²¹ She sayde: Let Abisag the Sunamite be geuen to Adonia thy brother to wyfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

why dost: Matthew 20:22, Mark 10:38, James 4:3

the kingdom: 1 Kings 1:5-7, 1 Kings 1:11, 1 Kings 1:24, 1 Kings 1:25

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:8 - and what 2 Samuel 3:7 - gone in 2 Samuel 12:8 - thy master's wives 2 Samuel 16:21 - unto thy 1 Kings 1:7 - following Adonijah helped him 1 Kings 1:21 - offenders Mark 2:26 - Abiathar

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.

Genesis 2:19
And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the ayre, and brought it vnto man, that he myght see howe he woulde call it. For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng, euen so was the name therof.

Psalms 127:1
If GOD wyll not buylde the house, they labour in vayne that buylde it: if God kepe not the citie, the watchman waketh in vayne.

Proverbs 18:22
Who so findeth a wyfe, findeth a good thing, and receaueth fauour of the Lorde.

Proverbs 19:14
House and riches may a man haue by the heritage of his elders: but a discrete woman is the gyft of the Lorde.

1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first fourmed, then Eue.

Hebrews 13:4
Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Solomon answered and said unto his mother,.... With as much gentleness and mildness as he could, but inwardly fired at her request, and amazed at it, and could not forbear using some degree of tartness and resentment:

and why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? is this a small petition? is this a fit and lawful one?

ask for him the kingdom also; for this is what he means by it, that by marrying the king's widow he may step into the throne whenever any opportunity offers, as any uneasiness, or insurrection in the kingdom, or the death of Solomon; for none but a king, the Jews say b, might marry a king's widow, not any private man; and therefore for Adonijah to ask this was interpreted affecting the kingdom, and aspiring to it, and taking his measures to obtain it; yea, it is said c, that none but another king, the successor, might make use of his servants, handmaids, and ministers; and it is observed, that Abishag was free to Solomon, but not to Adonijah:

for he [is] mine elder brother; and has that to plead in his favour, and if he could obtain this, it would strengthen his title, or at least be a plausible pretence, which he might make use of, when opportunity served, to gain the people to his interest:

even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah; she might as well ask for them as for him; whose interest it was, and therefore desirous it might be that he should be king, that so the one might be continued in the office of high priest, and the other as general of the army; who, Solomon knew, bore him no good will, but were secretly his enemies; and he suspected that this was a scheme of theirs, and that it was by their advice Adonijah made this request; so the Targum,

"are not he, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, in the counsel?''

in this counsel; it is what they had consulted among themselves as a preparation to bring about a design they are contriving; probably Solomon had private notice that they were plotting against him, and this confirmed him in the truth of it; and therefore all of them were upon this punished with deprivation of office, or loss of life.

b Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 2. c Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ask for him the kingdom also - Bath-sheba had not seen anything dangerous or suspicious in Adonijah’s request. Solomon, on the contrary, takes alarm at once. To ask for Abishag was to ask for the kingdom. To the Oriental mind a monarch was so sacred, that whatever was brought near to him was thenceforth separate from common use. This sacred and separate character attached especially to the Royal harem. The inmates either remained widows for the rest of their lives, or became the wives of the deceased king’s successor. When a monarch was murdered, or dethroned, or succeeded by one whose title was doubtful, the latter alternative was almost always adopted (compare 2 Samuel 12:8; 2 Samuel 16:22). Public opinion so closely connected the title to the crown and the possession of the deceased monarch’s wives, that to have granted Adonijah’s request would have been the strongest encouragement to his pretensions. Solomon, seeing this, assumes that Adonijah cherishes a guilty purpose, that there has been a fresh plot, that Abiathar and Joab - Adonijah’s counselors in the former conspiracy 1 Kings 1:7 - are privy to it, and that the severest measures are necessary to crush the new treason.