1 Kings 2:7-14

⁷But be kind to the sons of Barzillai, the man from the Gilead region, and be sure that they always have enough food to eat MTY. Do that because Barzillai helped me when I was running away from your older brother Absalom.

⁸Also, you remember Gera's son Shimei from Bahurim town in the area where the descendants of Benjamin live. You know what he did to me. He cursed me terribly on the day I left Jerusalem and went to Mahanaim town. But when he later came down to see me at the Jordan River, I solemnly promised, while Yahweh listened MTY, that I would not cause him to be executed.

⁹But now you must LIT surely punish him. You are a wise man, so you will know what you should do to him. He is an old man MTY, but be sure that he loses/sheds a lot of blood when you kill him MTY.”

¹⁰Then David died EUP and was buried in that part of Jerusalem which was called ❛The City of David❜.

¹¹David had been the king of Israel for 40 years: He ruled for seven years in Hebron and for 33 years in Jerusalem.

¹²Solomon became the ruler/king MTY to take the place of his father David and took control of all of the kingdom.

¹³One day Adonijah came to Solomon's mother Bathsheba. She said to him, “Have you come because you want things to go well?” He replied, “Yes.”

¹⁴But then he said, “I have something to ask you to do.” She said, “Tell me what you want me to do.”