World English Bible
1 Kings 2:15
“He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 2
13
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably.
14
He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on.
15
He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
16
Now I ask one petition of you. Don't deny me." She said to him, "Say on.
17
He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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