1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 Kings 2:17 give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife. 2 Samuel 16:20 suggests that sexual relations with the king’s concubines amounted to a claim to the throne. Solomon interprets Adonijah’s request as a revival of his conspiracy (1 Kings 1:1). It was precisely the “wickedness” against which Solomon had warned Adonijah in 1 Kings 1:52 (compare 1 Kings 2:22).

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