13Adonijah son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, "Have you come in peace?" And he said, "Peace."14He said, "I have a word for you." And she said, "Speak."15He said, "You know that the kingship belonged to me, and that all Israel set their faces on me to reign; yet the kingship turned and became my brother's, for it came to him from the LORD."16Now I am asking one petition from you; do not turn away my face. And she said to him, "Speak."17He said, "Please say to Solomon the king that he will not turn away your face, and that he will give me Abishag the Shunammites as a wife."18Bathsheba said, "Good; I myself will speak for you to the king."19Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king rose to meet her, bowed to her, sat on his throne, placed a throne for the king's mother, and she sat at his right.20She said, "I am asking one small petition from you; do not turn away my face." The king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not turn away your face."21She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammites be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife."22King Solomon answered his mother, "Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammites for Adonijah? Ask the kingship for him as well, since he is my older brother, and also for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah."23King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "May God do so to me and more also, because Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life.24Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who established me and seated me on the throne of David my father and who made a house for me as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today."25King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who struck him down and he died.26To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth on your own land, for you are a man of death; but today I will not put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father and because you shared all the hardships my father endured."27Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, to fulfill the word of the LORD that he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.28The report came to Joab, for Joab had turned after Adonijah though he had not turned after Absalom, so Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.29It was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he was beside the altar. Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, strike him down."30Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, "Thus says the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "No, for here I will die." Benaiah brought the king word, saying, "Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me."31The king said to him, "Do as he has spoken: strike him down and bury him, and remove from me and from my father's house the blood that Joab shed without cause.32The LORD will bring his blood back on his own head, because he struck down two righteous and better men than himself and killed them with the sword, though my father David did not know it: Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army.33Their blood shall return on the head of Joab and on the head of his seed forever, but to David and to his seed, to his house and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from the LORD."34Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck him down, and killed him; he was buried at his house in the wilderness.35The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar's place.36The king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere.37It shall be that on the day you go out and cross the Kidron torrent, know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head."38Shimei said to the king, "The word is good; as my lord the king has spoken, so your servant will do." And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.39At the end of three years two of Shimei's servants fled to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath, and they told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."40Shimei rose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants; Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.41It was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned.42The king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD and testify to you, saying, 'On the day you go out and go anywhere, know for certain that you shall surely die'? You said to me, 'The word is good; I have heard it.'43Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I commanded you?"44The king said to Shimei, "You know all the harm that your heart knew, which you did to David my father; the LORD will bring your harm back on your own head.45King Solomon is blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."46The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who went out, struck him down, and he died; and the kingdom was established in Solomon's hand.