Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, Gen 47:29Deu 31:141Ti 1:181Ti 6:132Pe 1:13-152Ti 4:12Ti 4:6Act 20:28-31 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; Jos 1:6-7Eph 6:10Jos 23:141Co 16:13Deu 31:23Heb 9:271Ch 28:201Ti 4:12 and 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. Deu 29:9Pro 3:1-4Deu 17:18-20Psa 119:21Ch 22:12-13Psa 1:2-31Ch 29:192Ch 31:20-21 Then the LORD 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.’ 2Ki 20:32Sa 7:251Ki 8:25Mat 22:37Psa 132:11-12Jhn 15:9-10Psa 89:29-371Ch 17:11-15
“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. 2Sa 3:272Sa 20:102Sa 18:122Sa 18:52Sa 18:142Sa 3:391Ki 1:18-191Ki 1:7 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol 1 in peace. 1Ki 2:9Ecc 8:11Isa 48:22Isa 57:21Pro 20:26Pro 28:17Psa 37:371Ki 2:28-34 But 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. 2Sa 17:27-292Sa 9:72Sa 19:31-402Sa 9:102Sa 15:13-152Sa 19:28Luk 12:37Luk 22:28-30
“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.’ 2Sa 16:5-81Ki 2:36-46Jer 4:22Sa 19:16-23 Now 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 2 with blood.” 1Ki 2:6Gen 42:38Gen 44:311Ki 3:121Ki 3:28Exo 20:7Exo 22:28Job 9:28
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city. Act 2:29Act 13:361Ch 29:281Ki 1:211Ki 11:431Ki 3:12Sa 5:71Ch 11:7 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2Sa 5:4-51Ch 29:26-27 Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established. 2Ch 1:11Ch 29:23-251Ki 1:462Sa 7:12-132Sa 7:29Psa 132:12Psa 72:8-20Psa 89:36-37
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” 1Ch 12:17-181Ki 1:5-101Ki 1:50-531Sa 16:4-52Ki 9:18-22Luk 10:5-6
He said, “Peaceably. He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” 2Sa 14:12Luk 7:40
She said, “Say on.”
He 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. 1Ch 22:9-101Ch 28:5-71Ki 1:251Ki 1:52Sa 16:182Sa 7:12Dan 2:22Jer 27:5-8 Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” Pro 30:7Psa 132:10
She said to him, “Say on.”
He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.” 1Ki 1:2-42Sa 12:82Sa 3:7
Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.” Pro 14:15
Bathsheba 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. Psa 45:91Ki 15:13Exo 20:12Lev 19:3Lev 19:32Psa 110:1Mat 25:33 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” Jhn 14:13-14Jhn 15:16Jhn 2:3-4Luk 11:9-10Mat 10:35-36Mat 11:24Mat 18:19Mat 20:20-21
The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”
She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.” 1Ki 1:32Sa 16:21-22
King 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.” 1Ch 3:21Ch 3:51Ki 1:111Ki 1:24-251Ki 1:5-72Sa 12:8Jas 4:3Mat 20:22 Then 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. Rut 1:17Psa 140:9Psa 64:81Ki 20:101Sa 14:442Ki 6:312Sa 19:132Sa 3:35 Now therefore as the LORD 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.” 1Ch 22:101Ch 17:101Ch 17:171Ch 17:231Ch 29:231Ki 1:291Ki 1:521Ki 10:9
King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died. 2Sa 8:181Ki 2:311Ki 2:341Ki 2:461Sa 15:332Sa 1:152Sa 4:12Jdg 8:20-21 To 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 3 GOD’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.” Jos 21:181Sa 22:20-231Sa 26:162Sa 15:24-29Jer 1:1Mat 10:421Ch 15:11-121Ki 1:25 So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the LORD’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. 1Sa 2:27-361Sa 3:12-14Jer 7:12-14Jos 18:1Psa 78:60Jhn 12:38Jhn 19:24Jhn 19:28
This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the LORD’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar. 1Ki 1:501Ki 1:72Sa 18:22Sa 17:252Sa 18:14-15Deu 32:35Exo 27:2 King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the LORD’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.” 1Ki 2:25Exo 21:141Ki 2:311Ki 2:461Pe 4:17Ezk 9:6
Benaiah came to the LORD’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.”
The 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. Deu 21:8-9Num 35:33Exo 21:142Sa 3:28Pro 28:172Ki 9:26Act 28:4Deu 19:12-13 The 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 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. Jdg 9:242Ch 21:13Jdg 9:57Psa 7:161Ki 2:52Sa 20:9-102Sa 3:26-271Ki 2:44 So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring 4 forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the LORD.” 1Ki 2:32Mat 27:252Ki 5:272Sa 3:28-29Isa 11:1-9Isa 9:6-7Luk 1:31-33Luk 2:14
Then 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. 1Ki 2:25Jos 15:61Mat 3:11Ki 2:311Ki 2:462Ch 33:202Ki 21:18 The 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. 1Ki 2:271Ch 24:31Ch 29:221Ki 4:41Ch 6:4-151Ch 6:50-531Sa 2:35Act 1:20
The 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. 1Ki 2:8-92Sa 16:5-91Ki 1:532Sa 14:242Sa 14:28Pro 20:26Pro 20:8 For 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.” 2Sa 1:162Sa 15:23Jos 2:192Ki 23:6Ezk 18:13Jhn 18:1Lev 20:91Ki 15:13
Shimei 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. 1Ki 20:42Ki 20:19
At 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.” 1Sa 21:101Sa 27:2-3
Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. Luk 12:15Pro 15:271Ti 6:10 Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the LORD 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.’ 1Ki 2:36-38Luk 15:22Luk 19:22Psa 15:4 Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I have instructed you with?” 2Ch 30:122Sa 21:2Ecc 8:2Ezk 17:18-19Rom 13:5 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head. 2Sa 16:5-131Sa 25:39Ezk 17:19Psa 7:161Jn 3:201Ki 2:32-33Hos 4:9Jhn 8:9 But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the LORD forever.” Pro 25:51Ki 2:241Ki 2:33-342Sa 7:13Isa 9:6-7Psa 21:6Psa 72:17 So 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. 1Ki 2:122Ch 1:11Ki 2:45Pro 29:4