11:001:049 And all the guests that were with Adonijah
were afraid, and
rose
up, and went every man his way.
11:001:050 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon,
and arose, and went,
and
caught hold on the horns of the altar.
11:001:051 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold,
Adonijah feareth king
Solomon:
for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the
altar,
saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he
will
not slay his servant with the sword.
11:001:052 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself
a worthy man, there
shall
not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness
shall
be found in him, he shall die.
11:001:053 So king Solomon sent, and they brought
him down from the
altar.
And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon:
and
Solomon
said unto him, Go to thine house.
11:002:001 Now the days of David drew nigh that he
should die; and he
charged
Solomon his son, saying,
11:002:002 I go the way of all the earth: be
thou strong therefore, and
shew
thyself a man;
11:002:003 And keep the charge of the lord thy
God, to walk in his ways,
to
keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments,
and
his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses,
that
thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and
whithersoever
thou turnest thyself:
11:002:004 That the lord may continue his word
which he spake concerning
me,
saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to
walk
before
me in truth with all their heart and with all their
soul,
there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne
of
Israel.
11:002:005 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the
son of Zeruiah did to
me,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of
Israel,
unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of
Jether,
whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and
put
the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his
loins,
and
in his shoes that were on his feet.
11:002:006 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and
let not his hoar
head
go down to the grave in peace.
11:002:007 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai
the Gileadite,
and
let them be of those that eat at thy table: for
so they
came
to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
11:002:008 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei
the son of Gera, a
Benjamite
of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in
the
day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down
to meet me
at
Jordan, and I sware to him by the lord, saying,
I will not
put
thee to death with the sword.


