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.”
23. And Sovereign Shelomoh swore by יהוה, saying, “Elohim does so to me, and more also, if Aḏoniyahu has not spoken this word against his own life!