10. And Dawiḏ slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawiḏ.
11. And the days that Dawiḏ reigned over Yisra’ĕl was forty years. He reigned seven years in Ḥeḇron, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years.
12. And Shelomoh sat on the throne of his father Dawiḏ. And his reign was firmly established.
13. And Aḏoniyahu son of Ḥaggith came to Bathsheḇa the mother of Shelomoh, and she said, “Do you come in peace?” And he said, “Peace.”
14. And he said, “I have a word for you,” and she said, “Speak.”
15. And he said, “You know that the reign was mine, and all Yisra’ĕl had set their faces toward me, that I should reign. But the reign has been turned around, and has become my brother’s, for it was his from יהוה.
16. “And now, I am making one request of you, do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Say it.”
17. And he said, “Please speak to Sovereign Shelomoh – for he would not refuse you – to give me Aḇishag̅ the Shunammite as wife.”