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Now therefore come, let me give you advice, so that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

So Bathsheba went to the king in his room. The king was very old; Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

King David answered, "Summon Bathsheba to me." So she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

as I swore to you by the Lord , the God of Israel, ‘Your son Solomon shall succeed me as king, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' so will I do this day."

Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, "Amen! May the Lord , the God of my lord the king, so ordain.

As the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David."

So the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule, and led him to Gihon.

And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise.

the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you heard.

So Solomon responded, "If he proves to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die."

and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.

So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established.

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.

Then King Solomon swore by the Lord , "So may God do to me, and more also, for Adonijah has devised this scheme at the risk of his life!

So King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he struck him down, and he died.

So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to the Lord , thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, "The king commands, ‘Come out.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."

So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever; but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore."

And Shimei said to the king, "The sentence is fair; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to my father David; so the Lord will bring back your evil on your own head.