The Koine Bible

And the days of David to die drew near, and he commanded Solomon his son, saying

I am going in the way of all the earth; and you shall be strong and be a man.

And you shall keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his commandments and his ordinances and his judgments, those written in the law of Moses, so that you may understand whatever you shall do, according to all that I may command you.

so that the Lord may establish his word which he spoke, saying, If your sons keep their way to walk before me in truth, with all their heart and with all their soul, saying, there shall not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel

And you too know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two rulers of the forces of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, and he killed them, and he set the blood of war in peace, and he put innocent blood on his belt that was on his loins and on his sandal that was on his foot

And you shall do according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring down his gray hair in peace to Hades.

And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite you shall do kindness, and they shall be among those eating at your table, for in this way they drew near to me when I fled from before Absalom your brother.

And behold, with you is Shimei son of Gera, son of the Jeminite, from Bahurim, and he himself cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I was going to Mahanaim; and he himself came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, If I put you to death with the sword,

And you shall not acquit him, for you are a wise man and you will know what you shall do to him, and you shall bring down his gray hair in blood to Hades.

And David slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.

And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, being a son of twelve years, and his kingdom was established very greatly.

And Adonias the son of Aggith came in to Bathsheba, mother of Solomon, and bowed down to her, and she said, Is your coming in peace? And he said, Peace.

I have a word to say to you, and he said to him, Speak.

And he said to her, You know that the kingdom was mine, and on me all Israel set its face for king, and the kingdom was turned and became my brother’s, because it came to him from the Lord.

And now I am asking one request from you; do not turn away your face. And Bathsheba said to him, Speak.

And he said to her, Speak now to King Solomon, saying that he will not turn his face away from you, and he will give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.

And Bathsheba said, Good; I will speak about you to the king.

And Bathsheba went in to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king rose to meet her and kissed her, and sat down on his throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right hand.

And she said to him, I ask one small request of you; do not turn away your face. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not turn you away.

And he said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife.

And Solomon the king answered and said to his mother, And why have you asked Abishag for Adonijah, and ask for him the kingdom? for he is my elder brother above me, and for him Abiathar the priest and for him Joab the son of Zeruiah, the commander-in-chief, companion.

And King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, because Adonias has spoken this word against his life.

And now, as the Lord lives, who prepared me and set me on the throne of David my father and who himself made me a house, as the Lord spoke, that Adonias shall be put to death today.

And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed him, and Adonijah died on that day.

And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go away, you, to Anathoth, to your field, for you are a man of death on this day; but I will not put you to death, because you carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.

And Solomon cast out Abiathar from being priest of the Lord, to fulfill the word of the Lord which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

And the report came as far as Joab the son of Zeruiah, that Joab had turned aside after Adonijah, but after Solomon he had not turned aside; and Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.

And it was reported to Solomon, saying, Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold, he is holding the horns of the altar. And Solomon sent to Joab, saying, What has happened to you, that you have fled to the altar? And Joab said, Because I feared before your face, and I fled to the Lord. And Solomon the king sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, and kill him, and bury him.

And Benaiah son of Jehoiada came to Joab into the tent of the Lord and said to him, Thus says the king: Come out. And Joab said, I will not come out, because here I will die. And Benaiah son of Jehoiada turned back and said to the king, saying, Thus Joab has spoken, and thus he has answered me.

And the king said to him, Go and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him and bury him, and you shall remove today the blood that Joab shed without cause from me and from my father’s house.

And the Lord turned back the blood of his injustice on his head, because he met the two righteous and good men more than him and he killed them with the sword; and my father David did not know their blood, Abner son of Ner, commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander-in-chief of Judah.

and their bloods were turned back upon his head and upon the head of his seed forever; and for David, and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, may there be peace forever from the Lord

And Benaiah son of Jehoiada met Joab and put him to death, and he buried him in his house in the wilderness.

And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his place over the command, and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem, and Zadok the priest the king appointed as first priest instead of Abiathar

And the king called Shimei and said to him, Build for yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and you shall not go out from there anywhere.

And it shall be on the day of your going out and you shall cross the Kidron wadi, knowing you shall know that by death you shall die; your blood shall be upon your head. And the king swore to him on that day.

And Shimei said to the king, The word that you have spoken is good, my lord king; so your servant will do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem three years.

And it happened after three years that two servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath, and it was reported to Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.

And Shimei arose and saddled his donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek out his servants. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.

And it was reported to Solomon, saying, that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Geth and had brought back his servants.

And the king sent and called Shimei and said to him, Did I not swear you by the Lord and testify to you, saying, On the day in which you should go out from Jerusalem and should go to the right or to the left, knowing, you shall know that by death you shall die?

And why have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the commandment which I commanded concerning you?

And the king said to Shimei, You know all your wickedness which your heart knew, which you did to David my father, and the Lord repaid your wickedness upon your head.

And King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.

And king Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died.