1st KINGS
CHAPTERS 1-2 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm. So his servants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.” Then they found Abishag and brought her to the king. She took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.
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ANGELO AGOSTINI
"David and Abizag"
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JACOB EPSTEIN
"David and Abishag"
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Now Adonijah put himself forward and said, “I will be king.” So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah who were royal officials, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard or his brother Solomon.
Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Have you not heard that Adonijah has become king without our lord David’s knowing it?” So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag was attending him. Bathsheba bowed low and knelt before the king. She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.’ But now Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not know about it. My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.” The king then took an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble, I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.” Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling before the king, said, “May my lord King David live forever!” King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah.” When they came before the king, he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and set Solomon my son on my own mule and take him down to Gihon. There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.” So they put Solomon on King David’s mule and escorted him to Gihon. Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “LONG LIVE KING SOLOMON!” And all the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.
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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"David Promises Bathsheba that Solomon Will Be His Successor"
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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"David's Promise to Bathsheba"
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GOVERT FLINCK
"Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to David"
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"Abishag at the Bed of David,
with Bathsheba, Solomon, and Nathan"
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JAN VAN NOORDT
"Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to King David"
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AERT DE GELDER
"Bathseba and David"
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"Bathsheba Pleads for Solomon"
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Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns of the altar. Then Solomon was told, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’ ” Solomon replied, “If he shows himself to be a worthy man, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.” Then King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And Adonijah came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon said, “Go to your home.” When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, show yourself a man, and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in his ways, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and requirements, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go, and that the LORD may keep his promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ ” Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. He had reigned forty years over Israel—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem. So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.
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CORNELIS DE VOS
"King David Presenting the Sceptre to Solomon"
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"David's Charge to Solomon"
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FERDINAND BOL
"David’s Dying Charge to Solomon"
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EDWARD BURNE-JONES
"David's Charge to Solomon"
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New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added
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