1Kgs 2
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And the days of David drew near that he should die: and he Gr. answered addressed his son Solomon, saying, I go the way of
all the earth:
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but be you strong, and shew yourself a man;
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and keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments
and the ordinances and the judgements which are written in the law of Moses; that
you may understand what you shall do in all things that I command you:
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that the Lord may confirm his word which he spoke, saying, If your children shall
take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart, I promise
you, saying, there shall not Gr. be destroyed to you fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
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Moreover you know all that Joab the son of Saruia did to me, what he did to the two
captains of the forces of Israel, to Abenner the son of Ner, and to Amessai the son
of Jether, that he slew them, and Gr. ordered shed the blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on his girdle that was
about
his loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot.
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Therefore you shall deal with him according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring
down his grey hairs in peace to Gr. Hades the grave.
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But you shall deal kindly with the sons of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall
be among those that eat at your table; for thus they drew nigh to me when I fled from
the face of your brother Abessalom.
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And, behold, there is with you Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he
cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the Gr. camps camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and
I swore to him by the Lord, saying,
I will not put you to death with the sword.
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But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know
what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
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And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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And the days which David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years
in Chebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
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And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was Gr. prepared established greatly.
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And Adonias the son of Aggith came in to Bersabee the mother of Solomon, and did obeisance
to her: and she said, Gr. Is your entrance peace? Do you enter peaceably? and he said, Peaceably:
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I have business with you. And she said to him, Say on.
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And he said to her, You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel turned their
face toward me for a king; but the kingdom was turned from me and became my brother’s:
for it was appointed to him from the Lord.
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And now I make one request of you, do not turn away your face. And Bersabee said to
him, Speak on.
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And he said to her, Speak, I pray you, to king Solomon, for he will not turn away
his face from you, and let him give me Abisag the Somanite for a wife.
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And Bersabee said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
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And Bersabee went in to king Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonias; and the king
rose up to meet her, and kissed her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for
the mother of the king, and she sat on his right hand.
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And she said to him, I ask of you one little request; turn not away my face from you.
And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject you.
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And she said, Let, I pray you, Abisag the Somanite be given to Adonias your brother
to wife.
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And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why have you asked Abisag for
Adonias? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother, and he has for
his companion Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Saruia the commander-in-chief.
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And king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and Gr. add these things more also, if it be not that Adonias
has spoken this word against his own life.
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And now as the Lord lives who has established me, and set me on the throne of my father
David, and he has made me a house, as the Lord spoke, this day shall Adonias be put
to death.
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So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he slew him, and
Adonias died in that day.
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And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart you quickly to Anathoth to your farm,
for you are Gr. a man of death worthy of death this day; but I will not slay you, because you have borne the ark
of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because you was afflicted in all
things wherein my father was afflicted.
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And Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest of the Lord, that the word of the
Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke Or, against concerning the house of Heli in Selom.
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And the report came to Joab son of Saruia; for Joab had turned after Adonias, and
he went not after Solomon: and Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught
hold of the horns of the altar.
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And it was told Solomon, saying, Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and
behold! he has hold of the horns of the altar. And king Solomon sent to Joab, saying,
Gr. What has happened to you? What ails you, that you have fled to the altar? and Joab said, Because I was afraid
of you, and fled for refuge to the Lord. And Solomon sent Banaeas son of Jodae, saying,
Go and slay him, and bury him.
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And Banaeas son of Jodae came to Joab to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him,
Thus says the king, Come forth. And Joab said, I Gr. do not will not come forth, for I will die here. And Banaeas son of Jodae
returned and spoke
to the king, saying, Thus has Joab spoken, and thus has he answered me.
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And the king said to him, Go, and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him: and you
shall bury him, and you shall remove this day the blood which he shed without cause,
from me and from the house of my father.
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And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch
as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and slew them with
the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, even Abenner the son of Ner
the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amessa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief
of Juda.
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And their blood is returned upon his head, and upon the head of his seed for ever:
but to David, and his seed, and his house, and his throne, may there be peace for
ever from the Lord.
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So Banaeas son of Jodae went up, and attacked him, and slew him, and buried him in
his house in the wilderness.
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And the king Gr. gave appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established
in Jerusalem; and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest
in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in
Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness
of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore. LXX text not in Heb. has been left out. - And the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly
beyond the wisdom of all the ancients,
and beyond all the wise men of Egypt: and he took the daughter of Pharao, and brought
her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the
house of the Lord first, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. In seven years he
made and finished them. - And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and
eight thousand hewers of stone in the mountain: and Solomon made the sea, and the
bases, and the great lavers, and the pillars, and the fountain of the court, and the
brazen sea-and he built the citadel as a defence above it, he made a breach in the
wall of the city of David: thus the daughter of Pharao went up out of the city of
David to her house which he built for her. Then he built the citadel: and Solomon
offered up three whole-burnt-offerings in the year, and peace-offerings on the altar
which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord, and finished the
house. And these are the chief persons who presided over the works of Solomon; three
thousand and six hundred masters of the people that wrought the works. And he burit
Assur, and Magdo, and Gazer, and upper Baethoron, and Ballath: only after he had built
the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about, afterwards he built
these cities. - And when David was yet living, he charged Solomon, saying, Behold,
there is with you Semei the son of Gera, of the seed of Benjamin out of Chebron: he
cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came
down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, He shall not be
slain with the sword. But now do not you hold him guiltless, for you are a man of
understanding, and you will know what you shall do to him, and you shall bring down
his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
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And the king called Semei, and said to him, Build you a house in Jerusalem, and dwell
there, and you shall not go out thence any where.
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And it shall come to pass in the day Gr. of they going forth that you shall go forth and cross over the brook Kedron, Gr.
knowing you shall know know assuredly that you shall certainly die: your blood shall be upon your head.
And the king caused him to swear in that day.
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And Semei said to the king, Good is the word that you have spoken, my lord O king:
thus will your servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem three years.
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And it came to pass after the three years, that two servants of Semei ran away to
Anchus son of Maacha king of Geth: and it was told Semei, saying, Behold, your servants
are in Geth.
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And Semei rose up, and saddled his ass, and went to Geth to Anchus to seek out his
servants: and Semei went, and brought his servants out of Geth.
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And it was told Solomon, saying, Semei is gone out of Jerusalem to Geth, and has brought
back his servants.
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And the king sent and called Semei, and said to him, Did I not adjure you by the Lord,
and testify to you, saying, In whatever day you shall go out of Jerusalem, and go
to the right or left, know certainly that you shall assuredly die?
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And why have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded
Gr. against you you?
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And the king said to Semei, You know all your mischief which your heart knows, which
you did to David my father: and the Lord has recompensed your mischief on your own
head.
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And king Solomon is blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the
Lord for ever.
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And Solomon commanded Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he went forth and slew him. -
And king Solomon was very prudent and wise: and Juda and Israel were very many, as
the sand which is by the sea for multitude, eating, and drinking, and rejoicing: (2:46BA) and Solomon was chief in all the
kingdoms, and they brought gifts, and served Solomon
all the days of his life. (2:46CA) And Solomon began to open the domains of Libanus, (2:46DA) and he built Thermae in the
wilderness. (2:46EA) And this was the Gr. dinner daily provision of Solomon, thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures
of
ground meal, ten choice calves, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and a hundred sheep,
besides stags, and does, and choice fed birds. (2:46FA) For he ruled in all the country Gr. beyond on this side the river,
from Raphi to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the river:
(2:46GA) and he was at peace on all sides round about; and Juda and Israel dwelt Gr. trusting in confidence; See Heb. safely,
every one under his vine and under his fig tree, eating and drinking and
feasting, from Dan even to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon. - And these were the
princes of Solomon; Azariu son of Sadoc the priest, and Orniu son of Nathan chief
of the officers, and he went to his house; and Suba the scribe, and Basa son of Achithalam
recorder, and Abi son of Joab commander-in-chief, and Achire son of Edrai was over
the levies, and Banaeas son of Jodae over the household and over the brickwork, and
Cachur the son of Nathan was counselor. - And Solomon had forty thousand brood mares
for his chariots, and twelve thousand horses. (2:46KA) And he reigned over all the kings from the river and to the land of
the Philistines,
and to the borders of Egypt: (2:46LA) so Solomon the son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem. 4) Gr. ran5)
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