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Now melech Dawid was old and advanced in years;
and they covered him with clothes, but he could not get
warm.
2 Therefore his avadim said to him, Let there be sought
for my master the melech a young virgin: and let her
stand before the melech, and let her cherish him, and let
her lie in your bosom, that my master the melech may be
warm.
3 So they sought for a lovely young woman throughout
all the borders of Yisrael, and found Avishag a
Shunammite, and brought her to the melech.
4 And the young woman was very lovely, and cherished
the melech, and was a chaver to him: but the melech
knew her not.
5 Then Adoniyah the son of Haggit exalted himself,
saying, I will be melech: and he prepared mirkavot and
horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6 And his abba had not rebuked him at any time in
saying, Why have you done this? And he also was a very
handsome man; and his eema bore him after Avshalom.
7 And he conferred with Yoav the son of Tzeruyah, and
with Aviathar the kohen: and they supported Adoniyah
and helped him.
8 But Tzadok the kohen, and Benayahu the son of
Yahoyada, and Natan the navi, and Shimei, and Rei, and
the mighty men who belonged to Dawid, were not with
Adoniyah.
9 And Adoniyah offered sheep and oxen and fat cattle by
the stone of Zocheleth, which is by En-Rogel, and called
all his brothers the melech's sons, and all the men of
Yahudah the melech's avadim:
10 But Natan the navi, and Benayahu, and the mighty
men, and Shlomo his brother, he did not call.
11 Natan then spoke to Bat-Sheva the eema of Shlomo,
saying, Have you not heard that Adoniyah the son of
Haggit has become melech, and Dawid our master does
not know it?
12 Now therefore come, let me, I ask you, give you
advice, that you may save your own chayim, and the
chayim of your son Shlomo.
13 Go to melech Dawid, and say to him, Did you not, my
master, O melech, swear to your female eved, saying,
Certainly Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he
shall sit upon my kesay? Why then does Adoniyah reign?
14 See, while you yet talk there with the melech, I also
will come in after you, and confirm your words.
15 And Bat-Sheva went in to the melech into the
bedroom: and the melech was very old; and Avishag the
Shunammite was serving the melech.
16 And Bat-Sheva bowed, and did obeisance to the
melech. And the melech said, What do you want?
17 And she said to him, My master, you swore by vuvh
your Elohim to your female eved, saying, Certainly
Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit
upon my kesay.
18 And now, see, Adoniyah reigns; and now, my master
the melech, you don’t even know it.
19 And he has sacrificed oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
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abundance, and has called all the sons of the melech, and
Aviathar the kohen, and Yoav the captain of the army: but
Shlomo your eved has he not called.
20 And you, my master, O melech, the eyes of kol Yisrael
are upon you, that you should tell them who shall sit on
the kesay of my master the melech after him.
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my master the
melech shall die with his ahvot, that I and my son Shlomo
shall be considered as sinners.
22 And, see, while she yet talked with the melech, Natan
the navi also came in.
23 And they told the melech, saying, See Natan the navi
is here. And when he had come in before the melech, he
bowed himself before the melech with his face to the
ground.
24 And Natan said, My master, O melech, Did you say,
Adoniyah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
kesay?
25 For he is gone down this day, and has sacrificed oxen
and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all
the melech's sons, and the captains of the army, and
Aviathar the kohen; and, see, they eat and drink before
him, and say, Le-Chayim melech Adoniyah.
26 But me, even me your eved, and Tzadok the kohen,
and Benayahu the son of Yahoyada, and your eved
Shlomo, all of us has he not called.
27 Is this thing done by my master the melech, and you
have not shown it to him, who should sit on the kesay of
my master the melech after him?
28 Then melech Dawid answered and said, Call Bat-
Sheva. And she came into the melech's presence, and
stood before the melech.
29 And the melech swore, and said, As vuvh lives, that
has redeemed my being out of all distress,
30 Even as I swore to you by vuvh Elohim of Yisrael,
saying, Certainly Shlomo your son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my kesay in my place; even so will I
certainly do again this day.
31 Then Bat-Sheva bowed with her face to the earth, and
did prostrate herself before the melech, and said, Let my
master melech Dawid live le-olam-va-ed.
32 And melech Dawid said, Call me Tzadok the kohen,
and Natan the navi, and Benayahu the son of Yahoyada.
And they came before the melech.
33 The melech also said to them, Take with you the
avadim of your master, and have Shlomo my son ride
upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
34 And let Tzadok the kohen and Natan the navi anoint
him there melech over Yisrael: and blow with the shofar,
and say, Let melech Shlomo live.
35 Then you shall come up after him, that he may come
and sit upon my kesay; for he shall be melech in my
place: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Yisrael
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36 And Benayahu the son of Yahoyada answered the
melech, and said, Amein: vuvh Elohim of my master the
melech says so too.
37 As vuvh has been with my master the melech, even so