WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.427 Day 200 and 11 00:00:04.913 --> 00:00:09.653 solomon became king and sat on the throne of David his father, and 00:00:09.653 --> 00:00:11.783 his kingdom was firmly established. 00:00:13.528 --> 00:00:17.668 One day, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, came to see 00:00:17.698 --> 00:00:19.428 Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. 00:00:20.688 --> 00:00:22.798 Have you come with peaceful intentions? 00:00:22.958 --> 00:00:23.728 she asked him. 00:00:24.408 --> 00:00:25.558 Yes, he said. 00:00:26.178 --> 00:00:27.258 I come in peace. 00:00:27.758 --> 00:00:30.328 In fact, I have a favor to ask of you. 00:00:31.238 --> 00:00:31.888 What is it? 00:00:32.248 --> 00:00:32.908 she asked. 00:00:33.518 --> 00:00:38.748 He replied, As you know, the kingdom was rightfully mine. 00:00:39.408 --> 00:00:41.848 All Israel wanted me to be the next king. 00:00:42.508 --> 00:00:46.478 But the tables were turned, and the kingdom went to my brother instead. 00:00:46.898 --> 00:00:48.688 For that is the way the Lord wanted it. 00:00:49.658 --> 00:00:52.258 So now I have just one favor to ask of you. 00:00:52.928 --> 00:00:54.228 Please don't turn me down. 00:00:55.398 --> 00:00:56.048 What is it? 00:00:56.328 --> 00:00:57.038 She asked. 00:00:57.788 --> 00:01:01.868 He replied, Speak to King Solomon on my behalf. 00:01:02.368 --> 00:01:04.738 For I know he will do anything you request. 00:01:05.598 --> 00:01:09.628 Ask him to let me marry Abishag, the girl from Shunem. 00:01:10.668 --> 00:01:14.788 All right, Bathsheba replied, I will speak to the king for you. 00:01:15.898 --> 00:01:19.958 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak on Adonijah's behalf. 00:01:20.848 --> 00:01:24.978 The king rose from his throne to meet her, and he bowed down before her. 00:01:25.838 --> 00:01:29.878 When he sat down on his throne again, the king ordered that a throne be brought for 00:01:29.878 --> 00:01:32.758 his mother, and she sat at his right hand. 00:01:34.008 --> 00:01:37.568 I have one small request to make of you, she said. 00:01:38.238 --> 00:01:39.858 I hope you won't turn me down. 00:01:40.918 --> 00:01:42.228 What is it, my mother? 00:01:42.388 --> 00:01:43.058 he asked. 00:01:44.158 --> 00:01:45.478 You know I won't refuse you. 00:01:46.498 --> 00:01:49.918 Then let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the girl 00:01:49.918 --> 00:01:51.648 from Shunem, she replied. 00:01:52.808 --> 00:01:56.638 How can you possibly ask me to give Abishag to Adonijah? 00:01:57.048 --> 00:01:58.378 King Solomon demanded. 00:01:59.233 --> 00:02:01.633 You might as well ask me to give him the kingdom. 00:02:02.343 --> 00:02:06.433 You know that he is my older brother, and that he has Abiathar the priest 00:02:06.443 --> 00:02:08.853 and Joab son of Zeruiah on his side. 00:02:09.903 --> 00:02:12.543 Then King Solomon made a vow before the Lord. 00:02:13.623 --> 00:02:18.313 May God strike me and even kill me if Adonijah has not sealed 00:02:18.313 --> 00:02:19.953 his fate with this request. 00:02:20.783 --> 00:02:25.003 The Lord has confirmed me and placed me on the throne of my father David. 00:02:25.753 --> 00:02:28.443 He has established my dynasty as he promised. 00:02:29.523 --> 00:02:34.453 So, as surely as the Lord lives, Adonijah will die this very day. 00:02:35.083 --> 00:02:39.213 So King Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him, 00:02:39.893 --> 00:02:41.953 and Adonijah was put to death. 00:02:43.233 --> 00:02:48.283 Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go back to your home in Anathoth. 00:02:48.843 --> 00:02:52.763 You deserve to die, but I will not kill you now, because you carried the 00:02:52.763 --> 00:02:57.743 ark of the sovereign Lord for David my father, and you shared all his hardships. 00:02:58.998 --> 00:03:02.918 So Solomon deposed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord. 00:03:03.738 --> 00:03:07.108 thereby fulfilling the prophecy the Lord had given at Shiloh 00:03:07.408 --> 00:03:09.438 concerning the descendants of Eli. 00:03:10.498 --> 00:03:14.798 Joab had not joined Absalom's earlier rebellion, but he had 00:03:14.808 --> 00:03:16.438 joined Adonijah's rebellion. 00:03:17.248 --> 00:03:22.038 So when Joab heard about Adonijah's death, he ran to the sacred tent of the Lord 00:03:22.048 --> 00:03:24.138 and grabbed on to the horns of the altar. 00:03:25.108 --> 00:03:28.928 When this was reported to King Solomon, he sent Benaiah son 00:03:28.928 --> 00:03:30.678 of Jehoiada to execute him. 00:03:31.668 --> 00:03:35.168 Benaiah went to the sacred tent of the Lord and said to Joab, 00:03:35.723 --> 00:03:37.533 The king orders you to come out. 00:03:38.573 --> 00:03:42.533 But Joab answered, No, I will die here. 00:03:43.753 --> 00:03:47.463 So Benaiah returned to the king and told him what Joab had said. 00:03:48.583 --> 00:03:51.013 Do as he said, the king replied. 00:03:51.873 --> 00:03:54.613 Kill him there beside the altar and bury him. 00:03:55.413 --> 00:03:58.603 This will remove the guilt of Joab's senseless murders from 00:03:58.603 --> 00:04:00.333 me and from my father's family. 00:04:01.113 --> 00:04:04.673 The Lord will repay him for the murders of two men who were more 00:04:04.673 --> 00:04:06.423 righteous and better than he. 00:04:07.253 --> 00:04:11.683 For my father knew nothing about the deaths of Abner, son of Ner, commander of 00:04:11.693 --> 00:04:17.343 the army of Israel, and of Emesa, son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 00:04:18.383 --> 00:04:21.953 May their blood be on Joab and his descendants forever. 00:04:22.723 --> 00:04:26.573 And may the Lord grant peace forever to David, his descendants. 00:04:27.068 --> 00:04:28.958 his dynasty, and his throne. 00:04:30.168 --> 00:04:35.638 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned to the sacred tent and killed Joab, and he 00:04:35.638 --> 00:04:37.708 was buried at his home in the wilderness. 00:04:38.458 --> 00:04:42.458 Then the king appointed Benaiah to command the army in place of Joab, 00:04:42.898 --> 00:04:46.478 and he installed Zadok the priest to take the place of Abiathar. 00:04:47.828 --> 00:04:52.898 The king then sent for Shimei and told him, Build a house here in Jerusalem 00:04:52.908 --> 00:04:56.948 and live there, but don't step outside the city to go anywhere else. 00:04:57.603 --> 00:05:01.633 On the day you so much as cross the Kidron Valley, you will surely 00:05:01.633 --> 00:05:07.003 die, and your blood will be on your own head, shimmy, I replied. 00:05:07.638 --> 00:05:08.958 Your sentence is fair. 00:05:09.668 --> 00:05:12.108 I will do whatever my Lord the King commands. 00:05:13.238 --> 00:05:16.158 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 00:05:17.238 --> 00:05:21.228 But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran away to King 00:05:21.278 --> 00:05:23.638 Achish, son of Maika of Gath. 00:05:24.608 --> 00:05:28.338 When Shimei learned where they were, he saddled his donkey and 00:05:28.338 --> 00:05:30.018 went to Gath to search for them. 00:05:30.888 --> 00:05:33.898 When he found them, he brought them back to Jerusalem. 00:05:35.188 --> 00:05:38.208 Solomon heard that Shimei had left Jerusalem and had 00:05:38.208 --> 00:05:39.758 gone to Gath and returned. 00:05:40.608 --> 00:05:45.228 So the king sent for Shimei and demanded, Didn't I make you swear 00:05:45.228 --> 00:05:49.598 by the Lord and warn you not to go anywhere else or you would surely die? 00:05:50.158 --> 00:05:52.988 And you replied, The sentence is fair. 00:05:53.388 --> 00:05:54.678 I will do as you say. 00:05:55.418 --> 00:05:58.848 Then why haven't you kept your oath to the Lord and obeyed my command? 00:05:59.788 --> 00:06:03.958 The king also said to Shimei, You certainly remember all the wicked 00:06:03.968 --> 00:06:06.028 things you did to my father David. 00:06:06.928 --> 00:06:09.758 May the Lord now bring that evil on your own head. 00:06:10.488 --> 00:06:15.668 But may I, King Solomon, receive the Lord's blessings, and may one of 00:06:15.668 --> 00:06:19.758 David's descendants always sit on this throne in the presence of the Lord. 00:06:20.948 --> 00:06:25.408 Then, at the king's command, Benaiah son of Jehoiada took 00:06:25.408 --> 00:06:27.518 Shimei outside and killed him. 00:06:28.748 --> 00:06:32.168 So the kingdom was now firmly in Solomon's grip. 00:06:33.788 --> 00:06:36.628 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:06:36.778 --> 00:06:37.968 Thank you for joining us.