1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death.”

1 Kings 2:19

2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.


tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

tn Or “meet.”

tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”