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


In Context

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

19 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.

20 Then 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.|

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

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.|

23 Then 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.

1 Kings 2:21 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:21So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said: Let Abisag the Sunamitess be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother as wife.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21And she saith, 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother to wife.