1 Kings 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ He said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He said, I pray you, ask King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, to give me Abishag the Shunammite to be my wife. [I Kings 1:1-4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king (for he will not say thee nay), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Adonijah continued, “Ask King Solomon to let me marry Abishag from Shunem—he won’t refuse you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he said: "I beg that you may speak to king Solomon, for he is not able to refuse anything to you, so that he may give Abishag the Shunammite to me as wife."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he said: I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag the Sunamitess to wife.

1 Kings 2:17 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:8

I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more.

2 Samuel 3:7

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

1 Kings 2:16

And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Go on.”

1 Kings 2:18

Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king on your behalf.”