I Kings 2

3and keep the instruction of the Lord 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.

Deuteronomy 29:9, Deuteronomy 29:9, Deuteronomy 17:18, Deuteronomy 17:20, Deuteronomy 17:18

4That the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your children take heed to 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.'

1 Kings 8:25, 2 Samuel 7:25, 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 8:25, 2 Samuel 7:25

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 about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 20:10, 2 Samuel 20:10, 2 Samuel 18:5

6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 2:9, Isaiah 48:22, Proverbs 28:17, Isaiah 57:21

7But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

2 Samuel 17:27, 2 Samuel 17:29, 2 Samuel 17:27, 2 Samuel 17:29, 2 Samuel 9:7

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 the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'

2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:8, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:8, 1 Kings 2:36

9Now therefore do not 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."

1 Kings 2:6, 1 Kings 2:6, Genesis 44:31, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 44:31

10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Acts 2:29, Acts 2:29, Acts 13:36, Acts 13:36, 1 Kings 11:43

11The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 5:4, 2 Samuel 5:5, 2 Samuel 5:4, 2 Samuel 5:5, 1 Chronicles 29:26

12Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was firmly established.

2 Chronicles 1:1, 2 Chronicles 1:1, 1 Chronicles 29:23, 1 Chronicles 29:25, 1 Chronicles 29:23

13Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably.

1 Chronicles 12:17, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, 1 Kings 1:50

14He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on."

Luke 7:40, 2 Samuel 14:12, Luke 7:40, 2 Samuel 14:12

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 the Lord.

1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 22:10, 1 Chronicles 28:5, 1 Chronicles 28:7, 1 Chronicles 22:9

16Now I ask one petition of you. Do not deny me." She said to him, "Say on."

Psalms 132:10, Proverbs 30:7, Psalms 132:10, Proverbs 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."

1 Kings 1:2, 1 Kings 1:4, 2 Samuel 3:7, 2 Samuel 12:8, 1 Kings 1:2

18Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

Proverbs 14:15, Proverbs 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.

Psalms 45:9, Psalms 45:9, Leviticus 19:3, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:32

20Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; do not deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you."

Matthew 11:24, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:11, Matthew 10:35, Matthew 10:36

21She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22, 1 Kings 1:3, 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22

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."

1 Chronicles 3:2, 1 Chronicles 3:2, Matthew 20:22, James 4:3, 1 Chronicles 3:5

23Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Ruth 1:17, Ruth 1:17, Psalms 140:9, Psalms 64:8, Psalms 140:9

24Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day."

1 Chronicles 22:10, 1 Chronicles 22:10, Psalms 127:1, 1 Samuel 25:28, 1 Chronicles 29:23

25King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Samuel 8:18, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:31, 2 Samuel 4:12

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 ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."

Joshua 21:18, Joshua 21:18, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:23, 1 Samuel 22:20

27So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfill the word of the Lord, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 2:27, 1 Samuel 2:36, 1 Samuel 2:27, 1 Samuel 2:36, 1 Samuel 3:12

28The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he did not turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 1:50, 1 Kings 1:7, 1 Kings 1:50, 1 Kings 1:7, 2 Samuel 18:2

29It was told king Solomon, "Joab has fled to the Tent of the Lord, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him."

1 Kings 2:25, 1 Kings 2:25, Exodus 21:14, Exodus 21:14, Ezekiel 9:6

30Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come forth!'" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus 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.

Deuteronomy 21:8, Deuteronomy 21:9, Numbers 35:33, Deuteronomy 21:8, Deuteronomy 21:9

32The Lord 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 did not 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.

Judges 9:24, Judges 9:24, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Psalms 7:16, Judges 9:57

33So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. But to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord."

Matthew 27:25, 1 Kings 2:32, Matthew 27:25, 1 Kings 2:32, Psalms 109:6

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.

Joshua 15:61, 1 Kings 2:25, Matthew 3:1, Joshua 15:61, 1 Kings 2:25

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.

1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 4:4, 1 Chronicles 29:22, 1 Chronicles 24:3

36The 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.

1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:9, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:9, 1 Kings 2:8

37For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your own head."

2 Samuel 1:16, 2 Samuel 1:16, 2 Samuel 15:23, 2 Samuel 15:23, Joshua 2:19

38Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

1 Kings 20:4, 2 Kings 20:19, 1 Kings 20:4, 2 Kings 20:19

39It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."

1 Samuel 27:2, 1 Samuel 27:3, 1 Samuel 21:10, 1 Samuel 27:2, 1 Samuel 27:3

40Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

Proverbs 15:27, 1 Timothy 6:10, Luke 12:15, Proverbs 15:27, 1 Timothy 6:10

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

42The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Did I not adjure you by the Lord, and warn you, saying, 'Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die?' You said to me, 'The saying that I have heard is good.'

1 Kings 2:36, 1 Kings 2:38, Luke 19:22, Psalms 15:4, Luke 15:22

43Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?"

2 Samuel 21:2, Romans 13:5, Ecclesiastes 8:2, 2 Chronicles 30:12, Ezekiel 17:18

44The king said moreover to Shimei, "You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness on your own head.

2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:13, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:13, Ezekiel 17:19

45But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever."

Proverbs 25:5, Proverbs 25:5, Psalms 21:6, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7

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.

1 Kings 2:12, 2 Chronicles 1:1, 1 Kings 2:12, 2 Chronicles 1:1, Proverbs 29:4

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