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Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the
daily bible reading experience.
Day 200 and 11
solomon became king and sat on the
throne of David his father, and
his kingdom was firmly established.
One day, Adonijah, whose
mother was Haggith, came to see
Bathsheba, Solomon's mother.
Have you come with peaceful intentions?
she asked him.
Yes, he said.
I come in peace.
In fact, I have a favor to ask of you.
What is it?
she asked.
He replied, As you know, the
kingdom was rightfully mine.
All Israel wanted me to be the next king.
But the tables were turned, and the
kingdom went to my brother instead.
For that is the way the Lord wanted it.
So now I have just one
favor to ask of you.
Please don't turn me down.
What is it?
She asked.
He replied, Speak to King
Solomon on my behalf.
For I know he will do
anything you request.
Ask him to let me marry
Abishag, the girl from Shunem.
All right, Bathsheba replied, I
will speak to the king for you.
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon
to speak on Adonijah's behalf.
The king rose from his throne to meet
her, and he bowed down before her.
When he sat down on his throne again, the
king ordered that a throne be brought for
his mother, and she sat at his right hand.
I have one small request
to make of you, she said.
I hope you won't turn me down.
What is it, my mother?
he asked.
You know I won't refuse you.
Then let your brother Adonijah
marry Abishag, the girl
from Shunem, she replied.
How can you possibly ask me
to give Abishag to Adonijah?
King Solomon demanded.
You might as well ask me
to give him the kingdom.
You know that he is my older brother,
and that he has Abiathar the priest
and Joab son of Zeruiah on his side.
Then King Solomon made
a vow before the Lord.
May God strike me and even kill
me if Adonijah has not sealed
his fate with this request.
The Lord has confirmed me and placed
me on the throne of my father David.
He has established my
dynasty as he promised.
So, as surely as the Lord lives,
Adonijah will die this very day.
So King Solomon ordered Benaiah
son of Jehoiada to execute him,
and Adonijah was put to death.
Then the king said to Abiathar the
priest, Go back to your home in Anathoth.
You deserve to die, but I will not
kill you now, because you carried the
ark of the sovereign Lord for David my
father, and you shared all his hardships.
So Solomon deposed Abiathar from
his position as priest of the Lord.
thereby fulfilling the prophecy
the Lord had given at Shiloh
concerning the descendants of Eli.
Joab had not joined Absalom's
earlier rebellion, but he had
joined Adonijah's rebellion.
So when Joab heard about Adonijah's death,
he ran to the sacred tent of the Lord
and grabbed on to the horns of the altar.
When this was reported to King
Solomon, he sent Benaiah son
of Jehoiada to execute him.
Benaiah went to the sacred tent
of the Lord and said to Joab,
The king orders you to come out.
But Joab answered, No, I will die here.
So Benaiah returned to the king
and told him what Joab had said.
Do as he said, the king replied.
Kill him there beside
the altar and bury him.
This will remove the guilt of
Joab's senseless murders from
me and from my father's family.
The Lord will repay him for the
murders of two men who were more
righteous and better than he.
For my father knew nothing about the
deaths of Abner, son of Ner, commander of
the army of Israel, and of Emesa, son of
Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
May their blood be on Joab
and his descendants forever.
And may the Lord grant peace
forever to David, his descendants.
his dynasty, and his throne.
So Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned to
the sacred tent and killed Joab, and he
was buried at his home in the wilderness.
Then the king appointed Benaiah to
command the army in place of Joab,
and he installed Zadok the priest
to take the place of Abiathar.
The king then sent for Shimei and told
him, Build a house here in Jerusalem
and live there, but don't step
outside the city to go anywhere else.
On the day you so much as cross
the Kidron Valley, you will surely
die, and your blood will be on
your own head, shimmy, I replied.
Your sentence is fair.
I will do whatever my
Lord the King commands.
So Shimei lived in
Jerusalem for a long time.
But three years later, two of
Shimei's slaves ran away to King
Achish, son of Maika of Gath.
When Shimei learned where they
were, he saddled his donkey and
went to Gath to search for them.
When he found them, he brought
them back to Jerusalem.
Solomon heard that Shimei
had left Jerusalem and had
gone to Gath and returned.
So the king sent for Shimei and
demanded, Didn't I make you swear
by the Lord and warn you not to go
anywhere else or you would surely die?
And you replied, The sentence is fair.
I will do as you say.
Then why haven't you kept your oath
to the Lord and obeyed my command?
The king also said to Shimei, You
certainly remember all the wicked
things you did to my father David.
May the Lord now bring
that evil on your own head.
But may I, King Solomon, receive
the Lord's blessings, and may one of
David's descendants always sit on this
throne in the presence of the Lord.
Then, at the king's command,
Benaiah son of Jehoiada took
Shimei outside and killed him.
So the kingdom was now
firmly in Solomon's grip.
This concludes today's
Immerse Reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.