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.”
18. And Bathsheḇa said, “Good, let me speak for you to the sovereign.”
19. And Bathsheḇa came to Sovereign Shelomoh, to speak to him for Aḏoniyahu. And the sovereign rose up to meet her and bowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the sovereign’s mother. So she sat at his right hand.
20. And she said, “I am making one small request of you, do not refuse me.” And the sovereign said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I do not refuse you.”
21. Then she said, “Let Aḇishag̅ the Shunammite be given to Aḏoniyahu your brother as wife.”
22. And Sovereign Shelomoh answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Aḇishag̅ the Shunammite for Aḏoniyahu? Ask for him the reign also – for he is my older brother – for him, and for Eḇyathar the priest, and for Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah.”