1 Kings 2

1Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,Cross-references: Gen 47:29 · Num 27:19 · Deut 3:28 · Deut 31:14 · Deut 31:23 · Deut 33:1 · +6 more

2“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;Cross-references: Deut 17:19 · Deut 31:6 · Deut 31:23 · Josh 1:6 · Josh 23:14 · 2Sam 10:12 · +11 more

3and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself.Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 4:5 · Deut 4:8 · Deut 4:45 · Deut 5:1 · Deut 6:1 · +22 more

4Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Gen 18:19 · Lev 26:3 · Deut 6:5 · Deut 7:12 · Deut 10:12 · +26 more

5“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet.Cross-references: 2Sam 2:18 · 2Sam 3:27 · 2Sam 3:39 · 2Sam 17:25 · 2Sam 18:5 · 2Sam 18:12 · +9 more

6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Gen 42:38 · Num 35:33 · 1Ki 2:9 · 1Ki 2:28 · 2Ki 22:20 · +8 more

7But 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 9:7 · 2Sam 9:10 · 2Sam 15:13 · 2Sam 17:27 · 2Sam 19:28 · 2Sam 19:31 · +4 more

8“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous 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 Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’Cross-references: 2Sam 16:5 · 2Sam 19:16 · 1Ki 2:36 · Jer 4:2

9Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”Cross-references: Gen 42:38 · Gen 44:31 · Ex 20:7 · Ex 22:28 · Num 32:23 · 1Ki 2:6 · +3 more

10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:7 · 1Ki 1:21 · 1Ki 3:1 · 1Ki 11:43 · 1Chr 11:7 · 1Chr 29:28 · +2 more

11The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:4 · 1Chr 29:26

12Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 7:29 · 1Ki 1:46 · 1Chr 29:23 · 2Chr 1:1 · Ps 72:8 · +2 more

13Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:4 · 1Ki 1:5 · 1Ki 1:50 · 2Ki 9:18 · 1Chr 12:17 · Luke 10:5

14He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” She said, “Say on.”Cross-references: 2Sam 14:12 · Luke 7:40

15He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 12:24 · 2Sam 15:6 · 2Sam 15:13 · 2Sam 16:18 · 1Ki 1:5 · +6 more

16Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”Cross-references: Ps 132:10 · Prov 30:7

17He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”Cross-references: 2Sam 3:7 · 2Sam 12:8 · 1Ki 1:2

18Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”Cross-references: Prov 14:15

19Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Lev 19:3 · Lev 19:32 · 1Ki 15:13 · Ps 45:9 · Ps 110:1 · +1 more

20Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”Cross-references: Matt 7:7 · Matt 10:35 · Matt 11:24 · Matt 18:19 · Matt 20:20 · Luke 11:9 · +3 more

21She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”Cross-references: 2Sam 16:21 · 1Ki 1:3

22King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”Cross-references: 2Sam 12:8 · 1Ki 1:5 · 1Ki 1:11 · 1Ki 1:24 · 1Chr 3:2 · 1Chr 3:5 · +3 more

23Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.Cross-references: Ruth 1:17 · 1Sam 14:44 · 2Sam 3:9 · 2Sam 3:35 · 2Sam 19:13 · 1Ki 20:10 · +6 more

24Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”Cross-references: Ex 1:21 · 1Sam 25:28 · 2Sam 7:11 · 2Sam 7:27 · 1Ki 1:29 · 1Ki 1:52 · +10 more

25King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.Cross-references: Judg 8:20 · 1Sam 15:33 · 2Sam 1:15 · 2Sam 4:12 · 2Sam 8:18 · 1Ki 2:31 · +2 more

26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”Cross-references: Josh 21:18 · 1Sam 22:20 · 1Sam 23:6 · 1Sam 26:16 · 2Sam 12:5 · 2Sam 15:24 · +9 more

27So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.Cross-references: Josh 18:1 · 1Sam 2:27 · 1Sam 3:12 · Ps 78:60 · Jer 7:12 · Matt 26:56 · +4 more

28This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.Cross-references: Ex 27:2 · Deut 32:35 · 2Sam 17:25 · 2Sam 18:2 · 2Sam 18:14 · 1Ki 1:7 · +1 more

29King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”Cross-references: Ex 21:14 · 1Ki 2:25 · 1Ki 2:31 · 1Ki 2:46 · Ezek 9:6 · 1Pet 4:17

30Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

31The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.Cross-references: Gen 9:5 · Ex 21:14 · Num 35:33 · Deut 19:12 · Deut 21:8 · 2Sam 3:28 · +3 more

32Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.Cross-references: Gen 4:11 · Judg 9:24 · Judg 9:57 · 1Sam 15:28 · 2Sam 3:26 · 2Sam 3:37 · +8 more

33So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”Cross-references: 2Sam 3:28 · 1Ki 2:32 · 2Ki 5:27 · Ps 89:29 · Ps 89:36 · Ps 101:8 · +8 more

34Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.Cross-references: Josh 15:61 · 1Ki 2:25 · 1Ki 2:31 · 1Ki 2:46 · 2Ki 21:18 · 2Chr 33:20 · +1 more

35The 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.Cross-references: Num 25:11 · 1Sam 2:35 · 1Ki 2:27 · 1Ki 4:4 · 1Chr 6:4 · 1Chr 6:50 · +5 more

36The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:24 · 2Sam 14:28 · 2Sam 16:5 · 1Ki 1:53 · 1Ki 2:8 · Prov 20:8 · +1 more

37For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”Cross-references: Lev 20:9 · Josh 2:19 · 2Sam 1:16 · 2Sam 15:23 · 1Ki 2:31 · 1Ki 2:33 · +6 more

38Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:4 · 2Ki 20:19

39At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”Cross-references: 1Sam 21:10 · 1Sam 27:2

40Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.Cross-references: Prov 15:27 · Luke 12:15 · 1Tim 6:10

41Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.

42The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die’? You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’Cross-references: 1Ki 2:36 · Ps 15:4 · Luke 15:22 · Luke 19:22

43Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”Cross-references: 2Sam 21:2 · 2Chr 30:12 · Eccl 8:2 · Ezek 17:18 · Rom 13:5

44The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:39 · 2Sam 16:5 · 1Ki 2:32 · Ps 7:16 · Prov 5:22 · Ezek 17:19 · +4 more

45But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”Cross-references: 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 2:24 · 1Ki 2:33 · Ps 21:6 · Ps 72:17 · Prov 25:5 · +1 more

46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:12 · 1Ki 2:45 · 2Chr 1:1 · Prov 29:4