1 Kings 2:19

caused a seat to be set for the king's mother For -seat" we should have throne. The word is the same as that which occurs earlier in the verse for Solomon's own -throne." In Eastern nations the queen-mother was a very important personage and treated with the same sort of reverence as the king. This we may see in the case of Maachah (1 Kings 15:13) who held authority and was called queen, even during the reign of her grandson Asa. Compare also the influential position of Athaliah, which enabled her to destroy nearly all the seedroyal (2 Kings 11:1).

and she sat on his right hand This being the place of greatest honour, cf. Psalms 45:9.