1 Kings 2:17-25

17Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not 1refuse you, that he may give me 2Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.” 18Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king for you.”

19So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he 3had a throne set for the king’s mother, and 4she sat on his right. 20Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; 5do not 6refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not 7refuse you.” 21So she said, “8Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife.” 22King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? 9Ask for him also the kingdom--10for he is my older brother--even for him, for 11Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!” 23Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has 12not spoken this word against his own 13life. 24Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and 14who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.” 25So King Solomon 15sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him so that he died.