I will speak for thee Bath-sheba does not seem to have suspected Adonijah's design, and this simplicity of hers he perhaps hoped to trade upon, and thought that his petition, coming to Solomon through her, might appear less dangerous. That she should consent to ask the king was not unnatural. -The damsel was very fair" (1 Kings 1:4) and Adonijah -a very goodly man" (1 Kings 1:6), and such a marriage might appear to her not unfitting.

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