When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,

When Obadiah went and informed Ahab, the king went to meet Elijah.

Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king.

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

When King Solomon heard that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down.”