¹⁸ Then Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak to the king concerning you.”

Solomon’s Responses to Adonijah, Joab, and Shimei

¹⁹ Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right. ²⁰ She said, “I have one small request I am asking from you. Do not refuse me.”^[a] The king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”^[b]