15. And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had set their faces on me that I should reign; but the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother's, for it was his from Jehovah.
16. And now I ask one petition of thee; refuse me not. And she said to him, Speak.
17. And he said, Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king--for he will not refuse thee--that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
18. And Bathsheba said, Well, I will speak for thee to the king.
19. And Bathsheba went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne; and he caused a throne to be set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.