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She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

1 Kings 2:21 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી1 રાજાઓ ૨:૨૧
તેણે કહ્યું, “શૂનામ્મી અબીશાગનું લગ્ન તું તારા ભાઈ અદોનિયા સાથે કરાવ.”
हिन्दी1 राजाओं २:२१
उसने कहा, “वह शूनेमिन अबीशग तेरे भाई अदोनिय्याह को ब्याह दी जाए।”

In context

19Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

20Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”

21She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

22King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

23Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

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