1 Appropinquaverunt autem dies David ut moreretur: præcepitque Salomoni filio suo, dicens: 2 Ego ingredior viam universæ terræ: confortare, et esto vir. 3 Et observa custodias Domini Dei tui, ut ambules in viis ejus: ut custodias cæremonias ejus, et præcepta ejus, et judicia, et testimonia, sicut scriptum est in lege Moysi: ut intelligas universa quæ facis, et quocumque te verteris: 4 ut confirmet Dominus sermones suos quos locutus est de me, dicens: Si custodierint filii tui vias suas, et ambulaverint coram me in veritate, in omni corde suo et in omni anima sua, non auferetur tibi vir de solio Israël. 5 Tu quoque nosti quæ fecerit mihi Joab filius Sarviæ, quæ fecerit duobus principibus exercitus Israël, Abner filio Ner, et Amasæ filio Jether: quos occidit, et effudit sanguinem belli in pace, et posuit cruorem prælii in balteo suo qui erat circa lumbos ejus, et in calceamento suo quod erat in pedibus ejus. 6 Facies ergo juxta sapientiam tuam, et non deduces canitiem ejus pacifice ad inferos. 7 Sed et filiis Berzellai Galaaditis reddes gratiam, eruntque comedentes in mensa tua: occurrerunt enim mihi quando fugiebam a facie Absalom fratris tui. 8 Habes quoque apud te Semei filium Gera filii Jemini de Bahurim, qui maledixit mihi maledictione pessima quando ibam ad castra: sed quia descendit mihi in occursum cum transirem Jordanem, et juravi ei per Dominum, dicens: Non te interficiam gladio: 9 tu noli pati eum esse innoxium. Vir autem sapiens es, ut scias quæ facies ei: deducesque canos ejus cum sanguine ad inferos. 10 Dormivit igitur David cum patribus suis, et sepultus est in civitate David. 11 Dies autem quibus regnavit David super Israël, quadraginta anni sunt: in Hebron regnavit septem annis; in Jerusalem, triginta tribus. 12 Salomon autem sedit super thronum David patris sui, et firmatum est regnum ejus nimis. 13 Et ingressus est Adonias filius Haggith ad Bethsabee matrem Salomonis. Quæ dixit ei: Pacificusne est ingressus tuus? Qui respondit: Pacificus. 14 Addiditque: Sermo mihi est ad te. Cui ait: Loquere. Et ille: 15 Tu, inquit, nosti, quia meum erat regnum, et me præposuerat omnis Israël sibi in regem: sed translatum est regnum, et factum est fratris mei: a Domino enim constitutum est ei. 16 Nunc ergo petitionem unam precor a te: ne confundas faciem meam. Quæ dixit ad eum: Loquere. 17 Et ille ait: Precor ut dicas Salomoni regi (neque enim negare tibi quidquam potest) ut det mihi Abisag Sunamitidem uxorem. 18 Et ait Bethsabee: Bene: ego loquar pro te regi. 19 Venit ergo Bethsabee ad regem Salomonem ut loqueretur ei pro Adonia: et surrexit rex in occursum ejus, adoravitque eam, et sedit super thronum suum: positusque est thronus matri regis, quæ sedit ad dexteram ejus. 20 Dixitque ei: Petitionem unam parvulam ego deprecor a te: ne confundas faciem meam. Et dixit ei rex: Pete, mater mea: neque enim fas est ut avertam faciem tuam. 21 Quæ ait: Detur Abisag Sunamitis Adoniæ fratri tuo uxor. 22 Responditque rex Salomon, et dixit matri suæ: Quare postulas Abisag Sunamitidem Adoniæ? postula ei et regnum: ipse est enim frater meus major me, et habet Abiathar sacerdotem, et Joab filium Sarviæ. 23 Juravit itaque rex Salomon per Dominum, dicens: Hæc faciat mihi Deus, et hæc addat, quia contra animam suam locutus est Adonias verbum hoc. 24 Et nunc vivit Dominus, qui firmavit me, et collocavit me super solium David patris mei, et qui fecit mihi domum, sicut locutus est, quia hodie occidetur Adonias. 25 Misitque rex Salomon per manum Banaiæ filii Jojadæ, qui interfecit eum, et mortuus est. 26 Abiathar quoque sacerdoti dixit rex: Vade in Anathoth ad agrum tuum: equidem vir mortis es: sed hodie te non interficiam, quia portasti arcam Domini Dei coram David patre meo, et sustinuisti laborem in omnibus in quibus laboravit pater meus. 27 Ejecit ergo Salomon Abiathar ut non esset sacerdos Domini, ut impleretur sermo Domini quem locutus est super domum Heli in Silo. 28 Venit autem nuntius ad Joab, quod Joab declinasset post Adoniam, et post Salomonem non declinasset: fugit ergo Joab in tabernaculum Domini, et apprehendit cornu altaris. 29 Nuntiatumque est regi Salomoni quod fugisset Joab in tabernaculum Domini, et esset juxta altare: misitque Salomon Banaiam filium Jojadæ, dicens: Vade, interfice eum. 30 Et venit Banaias ad tabernaculum Domini, et dixit ei: Hæc dicit rex: Egredere. Qui ait: Non egrediar, sed hic moriar. Renuntiavit Banaias regi sermonem, dicens: Hæc locutus est Joab, et hæc respondit mihi. 31 Dixitque ei rex: Fac sicut locutus est, et interfice eum, et sepeli: et amovebis sanguinem innocentem qui effusus est a Joab, a me, et a domo patris mei. 32 Et reddet Dominus sanguinem ejus super caput ejus, quia interfecit duos viros justos, melioresque se: et occidit eos gladio, patre meo David ignorante, Abner filium Ner principem militiæ Israël, et Amasam filium Jether principem exercitus Juda: 33 et revertetur sanguis illorum in caput Joab, et in caput seminis ejus in sempiternum. David autem et semini ejus, et domui, et throno illius, sit pax usque in æternum a Domino. 34 Ascendit itaque Banaias filius Jojadæ, et aggressus eum interfecit: sepultusque est in domo sua in deserto. 35 Et constituit rex Banaiam filium Jojadæ pro eo super exercitum, et Sadoc sacerdotem posuit pro Abiathar. 36 Misit quoque rex, et vocavit Semei: dixitque ei: Ædifica tibi domum in Jerusalem, et habita ibi: et non egredieris inde huc atque illuc. 37 Quacumque autem die egressus fueris, et transieris torrentem Cedron, scito te interficiendum: sanguis tuus erit super caput tuum. 38 Dixitque Semei regi: Bonus sermo: sicut locutus est dominus meus rex, sic faciet servus tuus. Habitavit itaque Semei in Jerusalem diebus multis. 39 Factum est autem post annos tres ut fugerent servi Semei ad Achis filium Maacha regem Geth: nuntiatumque est Semei quod servi ejus issent in Geth. 40 Et surrexit Semei, et stravit asinum suum, ivitque ad Achis in Geth ad requirendum servos suos, et adduxit eos de Geth. 41 Nuntiatum est autem Salomoni quod isset Semei in Geth de Jerusalem, et rediisset. 42 Et mittens vocavit eum, dixitque illi: Nonne testificatus sum tibi per Dominum, et prædixi tibi: Quacumque die egressus ieris huc et illuc, scito te esse moriturum: et respondisti mihi: Bonus sermo, quem audivi? 43 quare ergo non custodisti jusjurandum Domini, et præceptum quod præceperam tibi? 44 Dixitque rex ad Semei: Tu nosti omne malum cujus tibi conscium est cor tuum, quod fecisti David patri meo: reddidit Dominus malitiam tuam in caput tuum: 45 et rex Salomon benedictus, et thronus David erit stabilis coram Domino usque in sempiternum. 46 Jussit itaque rex Banaiæ filio Jojadæ, qui egressus, percussit eum, et mortuus est.
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Abishag the Shunammite
A very beautiful girl from Shunem found to care for the aged King David and keep him warm, whom Adonijah later asked to marry.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 1:3; 1 Kings 1:15; 1 Kings 2:17
Achish
Called 'son of Maacah', king of Gath, to whom two of Shimei's slaves ran away.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 2:39; 1 Kings 2:40
Adonijah
A son of David who tried to claim the throne ahead of Solomon in David's final days.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1-2
Bathsheba
Wife of David and mother of Solomon, remembered amid both sin and grace.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Kings 1-2; Matthew 1:6
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Gera
Named as the father of Shimei, the Benjamite from Bahurim who cursed David.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 19:16; 1 Kings 2:8
Ithra
An Ishmaelite who married Abigail, sister of Zeruiah, and was the father of Amasa. 1 Kings 2:5 and 1 Chronicles 2:17 call him Jether.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 17:25; 1 Kings 2:5; 1 Kings 2:32
Solomon
David's son who built the temple and became famous for God-given wisdom.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 1-11; 1 Chron. 3:5; Matt. 1:6-7
Cross references (44)
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- 1 Genesis 47:29; Deuteronomy 31:14; Deuteronomy 31:23; Numbers 27:19; Deuteronomy 3:28
- 2 Joshua 1:6–7; Ephesians 6:10; Joshua 23:14; 1 Corinthians 16:13; Deuteronomy 31:23
- 3 Deuteronomy 29:9; Proverbs 3:1–4; Deuteronomy 17:18–20; Psalm 119:2; Joshua 1:7–8
- 4 2 Kings 20:3; 2 Samuel 7:25; 1 Kings 8:25; Psalm 132:11–12; Matthew 22:37
- 5 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 18:12; 2 Samuel 18:5; 2 Samuel 18:14
- 6 1 Kings 2:9; Isaiah 57:21; Proverbs 28:17; Isaiah 48:22; Ecclesiastes 8:11
- 7 2 Samuel 17:27–29; 2 Samuel 9:7; 2 Samuel 19:31–40; 2 Samuel 9:10; 2 Samuel 15:13–15
- 8 2 Samuel 16:5–8; Jeremiah 4:2; 1 Kings 2:36–46; 2 Samuel 19:16–23
- 9 1 Kings 2:6; Genesis 44:31; Genesis 42:38; Exodus 22:28; Numbers 32:23
- 10 Acts 2:29; Acts 13:36; 1 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Chronicles 29:28
- 11 2 Samuel 5:4–5; 1 Chronicles 29:26–27
- 12 2 Chronicles 1:1; 1 Chronicles 29:23–25; 2 Samuel 7:12–13; Psalm 132:12; 2 Samuel 7:29
- 13 1 Kings 1:50–53; 1 Kings 1:5–10; 1 Chronicles 12:17–18; 1 Samuel 16:4–5; 2 Kings 9:18–22
- 14 Luke 7:40; 2 Samuel 14:12
- 15 1 Chronicles 28:5–7; 1 Chronicles 22:9–10; 1 Kings 1:25; 1 Kings 1:5; Daniel 2:22
- 16 Proverbs 30:7; Psalm 132:10
- 17 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 12:8; 1 Kings 1:2–4
- 18 Proverbs 14:15
- 19 Psalm 45:9; Leviticus 19:32; Leviticus 19:3; 1 Kings 15:13; Psalm 110:1
- 20 John 15:16; Matthew 11:24; Matthew 20:20–21; John 2:3–4; Matthew 18:19
- 21 1 Kings 1:3; 2 Samuel 16:21–22
- 22 1 Chronicles 3:2; James 4:3; 1 Kings 1:24–25; 2 Samuel 12:8; 1 Kings 1:5–7
- 23 Ruth 1:17; Psalm 64:8; Psalm 140:9; 1 Kings 20:10; 2 Samuel 3:35
- 24 1 Chronicles 22:10; 2 Samuel 7:11–13; 2 Samuel 7:27; 1 Samuel 25:28; 1 Kings 3:6–7
- 25 2 Samuel 8:18; Judges 8:20–21; 1 Kings 2:34; 1 Kings 2:46; 2 Samuel 4:12
- 26 Joshua 21:18; 1 Samuel 22:20–23; 1 Samuel 26:16; 2 Samuel 15:24–29; Jeremiah 1:1
- 27 1 Samuel 2:27–36; 1 Samuel 3:12–14; Jeremiah 7:12–14; Joshua 18:1; Psalm 78:60
- 28 1 Kings 1:7; 1 Kings 1:50; 2 Samuel 18:2; 2 Samuel 17:25; Exodus 27:2
- 29 1 Kings 2:25; Exodus 21:14; Ezekiel 9:6; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Kings 2:46
- 31 Deuteronomy 21:8–9; Numbers 35:33; Exodus 21:14; 2 Samuel 3:28; Proverbs 28:17
- 32 Judges 9:24; 2 Chronicles 21:13; Psalm 7:16; Judges 9:57; 2 Samuel 20:9–10
- 33 2 Samuel 3:28–29; 1 Kings 2:32; Matthew 27:25; Proverbs 25:5; Isaiah 11:1–9
- 34 1 Kings 2:25; Matthew 3:1; Joshua 15:61; 1 Kings 2:31; 1 Kings 2:46
- 35 1 Kings 2:27; 1 Kings 4:4; 1 Chronicles 29:22; 1 Chronicles 24:3; Psalm 109:8
- 36 2 Samuel 16:5–9; 1 Kings 2:8–9; Proverbs 20:26; Proverbs 20:8; 2 Samuel 14:28
- 37 2 Samuel 1:16; 2 Samuel 15:23; Joshua 2:19; John 18:1; Leviticus 20:9
- 38 1 Kings 20:4; 2 Kings 20:19
- 39 1 Samuel 27:2–3; 1 Samuel 21:10
- 40 Proverbs 15:27; Luke 12:15; 1 Timothy 6:10
- 42 Luke 19:22; Psalm 15:4; Luke 15:22; 1 Kings 2:36–38
- 43 Ezekiel 17:18–19; Romans 13:5; 2 Chronicles 30:12; 2 Samuel 21:2; Ecclesiastes 8:2
- 44 2 Samuel 16:5–13; Psalm 7:16; 1 Samuel 25:39; Ezekiel 17:19; Proverbs 5:22
- 45 Proverbs 25:5; Psalm 21:6; 2 Samuel 7:13; Isaiah 9:6–7; Psalm 72:17
- 46 1 Kings 2:12; 2 Chronicles 1:1; Proverbs 29:4; 1 Kings 2:45
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