📖WEB · 1 Kings 2:13
What does 1 Kings 2:13 mean?
"Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably."
— 1 Kings 2:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.
He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” She said, “Say on.”
He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”
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