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Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn`t you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
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Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
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Bath-sheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
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Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?
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She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.