1 Kings 2:20-22

Expanded Bible

²⁰ Bathsheba said, “I have one small thing to ask you. Please do not ·refuse me [turn me down].”

“Ask, mother,” the king answered. “I will not ·refuse you [turn you down].”

²¹ So she said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to ·marry [be given to] your brother Adonijah.”

²² King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask me to give him Abishag? ·Why don’t you also [You may as well] ask for him to become the king since he is my older brother? Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah ·would support him [are on his side]!”