RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

let Him be with Shlomo, and make his kesay greater than
the kesay of my master melech Dawid.
38 So Tzadok the kohen, and Natan the navi, and
Benayahu the son of Yahoyada, and the Cherethites, and
the Pelethites, went down, and had Shlomo to ride upon
melech Dawid's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
39 And Tzadok the kohen took a horn of oil out of the
Tabernacle, and anointed Shlomo. And they blew the
shofar; and all the people said, Let melech Shlomo live.
40 And all the people came up after him, and the people
played the flutes, and had gilah with great simcha, so that
the earth was split with their noise.
41 And Adoniyah and all the guests that were with him
heard it as they had finished eating. And when Yoav
heard the sound of the shofar, he said, Why is this noise
of the city in an uproar?
42 And while he yet spoke, see, Yonathan the son of
Aviathar the kohen came: and Adoniyah said to him,
Come in; for you are a brave man, and bring tov news.
43 And Yonathan answered and said to Adoniyah, Truly
our master melech Dawid has made Shlomo melech.
44 And the melech has sent with him Tzadok the kohen,
and Natan the navi, and Benayahu the son of Yahoyada,
and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have
caused him to ride upon the melech's mule:
45 And Tzadok the kohen and Natan the navi have
anointed him melech in Gihon: and they have gone up
from there having gilah, so that the city rang again. This
is the noise that you have heard.
46 And now Shlomo sits on the kesay of the malchut.
47 And moreover the melech's avadim came to bless our
master melech Dawid, saying, Elohim make the name of
Shlomo better than your name, and make his kesay
greater than your kesay. And the melech bowed himself
upon the bed.
48 And also the melech said, Blessed be vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael, who has given one to sit on my kesay this day,
my eyes even seeing it.
49 And all the guests that were with Adoniyah were
afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
50 And Adoniyah feared because of Shlomo, and arose,
and went, and took hold of the horns of the altar.
51 And it was told Shlomo, saying, See, Adoniyah fears
melech Shlomo: for, see, he has caught hold on the horns
of the altar, saying, Let melech Shlomo swear to me today
that he will not kill his eved with the sword.
52 And Shlomo said, If he will show himself a worthy
man, there shall not a hair of his fall to the earth: but if
wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
53 So melech Shlomo sent, and they brought him down
from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to melech
Shlomo: and Shlomo said to him, Go to your bayit.
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Now the days of Dawid’s death drew near; and he
commanded Shlomo his son, saying,
2 I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and
show yourself a man;
3 And shomer the command of vuvh your Elohim, to have
your halacha in His halachot, to keep His chukim, and His
mishpatim, and His testimonies, as it is written in the
Torah of Moshe, that you may prosper in all that you do,
and wherever you go:
4 That vuvh may continue His word which He spoke
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concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their
halacha, to have their halacha before Me in emet with all
their lev and with all their being saying, there shall not
cease from you a man to sit on the kesay of Yisrael.
5 Moreover you know also what Yoav the son of
Tzeruyah did to me, and also what he did to the two
captains of the hosts of Yisrael, to Avner the son of Ner,
and to Amasa the son of Yether, whom he killed, and
shed the dahm of war in a time of shalom, and put the
dahm of war upon his belt that was around his loins, and
on his sandals that were on his feet.
6 Do therefore according to your chochmah, and let not
his gray hair go down to Sheol in shalom.
7 But show chesed to the sons of Barzillai the Giladi, and
let them be of those that eat at your shulchan: for so they
came to me when I fled because of Avshalom your
brother.
8 And, see, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benyamite of Bachurim, who cursed me with a hard curse
in the day when I went to Machanayim: but he came
down to meet me at the River Yarden, and I swore to him
by vuvh, saying, I will not put you to death with the
sword.
9 So now do not hold him guiltless: for you are a wise
man, and know what you ought to do to him; but his gray
head bring down to Sheol with dahm.
10 So Dawid slept with his ahvot, and was buried in the
city of Dawid.
11 And the days that Dawid reigned over Yisrael were
forty years: seven years he reigned in Hevron, and thirtythree
years he reigned in Yahrushalayim.
12 Then Shlomo sat upon the kesay of Dawid his abba;
and his malchut was established greatly.
13 And Adoniyah the son of Haggit came to Bat-Sheva
the eema of Shlomo. And she said, Do you come in
shalom? And he said, In shalom.
14 He said moreover, I have something to say to you.
And she said, Go ahead.
15 And he said, You know that the malchut was mine,
and that kol Yisrael looked to me, that I should reign. But
the malchut has turned around, and has become my
brother's: for it was his from vuvh.
16 And now I ask one request of you, do not deny me.
And she said to him, Say it.
17 And he said, Speak, I ask, to Shlomo the melech, for
he will not say no to you, that he give me Avishag the
Shunammite as my wife.
18 And Bat-Sheva said, Well; I will speak for you to the
melech.
19 Bat-Sheva therefore went to melech Shlomo, to speak
to him for Adoniyah. And the melech rose up to meet her,
and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his kesay, and
had a kesay set for the melech's eema; and she sat on his
right hand.
20 Then she said, I desire one small request from you; I’ll
ask you, and do not tell me no. And the melech said to
her, Ask on, my eema: for I will not say no to you.
21 And she said, Let Avishag the Shunammite be given to
Adoniyah your brother to be his wife.
22 And melech Shlomo answered and said to his eema,
And why do you ask about Avishag the Shunammite for
Adoniyah? Ask for him the malchut also; for he is my
elder brother; and why don’t you ask for the malchut for