20. Then she said, “I desire one small petition of you. Please do not deny me.”And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
21. She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given as a wife to Adonijah your brother.”
22. King Solomon answered his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother. Ask not only for him, but also for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
23. Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life.
24. Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”
25. So King Solomon dispatched Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he executed him.
26. The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord God before David my father and because you shared in all the hardships my father endured.”
27. So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that He had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28. Then word came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, though he did not support Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
29. King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of the Lord and was by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go and execute him.”
30. So Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come forth.’ ”And he said, “No, I will die here.”And Benaiah told the king all Joab said.