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All the people escorted him back, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the earth shook with the sound.

While he was still speaking, there came Yonatan the son of Evyatar the cohen. Adoniyah said, "Come in! You're a worthy man, so you must be bringing good news!"

and Tzadok the cohen and Natan the prophet anointed him king in Gichon. Then they escorted him back from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar; this is the noise you've been hearing.

So King Shlomo sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and prostrated himself before King Shlomo; and Shlomo said to him, ‘Go on home.'"

The time came near for David to die; so he commissioned Shlomo his son as follows:

Observe the charge of Adonai your God to go in his ways and keep his regulations, mitzvot, rulings and instructions in accordance with what is written in the Torah of Moshe; so that you will succeed in all you do and wherever you go.

"Finally, you have with you Shim‘i the son of Gera the Binyamini, from Bachurim. He laid a terrible curse on me when I was on my way to Machanayim; but he came down to meet me at the Yarden; so I swore to him by Adonai that I would not have him put to death with the sword.

So Bat-Sheva went to King Shlomo to speak to him on behalf of Adoniyah. The king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat down on his throne and had a throne set up for the king's mother, so that she sat at his right.

King Shlomo commissioned B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada, and he struck him down, so that he died.

So Shlomo forced Evyatar out of his task as cohen to Adonai , so that what Adonai had said in Shiloh about the family of ‘Eli might be fulfilled.

So B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada went up, struck him down and killed him; he was buried in his own house in the desert.

Shim‘i answered the king, "What you have said is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shim‘i lived in Yerushalayim for a long time.

So Shim‘i set out, saddled his donkey and went to Akhish in Gat to look for his slaves; then Shim‘i returned, bringing his slaves from Gat.

So the king gave the order to B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada, and he went out and struck him down, so that he died. Thus the kingdom was established in Shlomo's hands.

So now, Adonai my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; but I am a mere child — I don't know how to lead!

Moreover your servant is among your people, whom you chose, a great people so numerous that they cannot be counted.

Therefore, give your servant an understanding heart able to administer justice to your people, so that I can discern between good and bad — for who is equal to judging this great people of yours?"

I am doing what you requested. I am giving you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you, nor will there ever again be anyone like you.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from next to me, while your servant was sleeping, and put it in her arms; and she laid her dead child in my arms.

At this, the woman to whom the living child belonged addressed the king, because she felt so strongly toward her son: "Oh, my lord, give her the living child; you mustn't kill it!" But the other one said, "It will be neither yours nor mine. Divide it up!"