‘Very well,’ Bathsheba replied. ‘I will speak to the king for you.’
The inexperienced one believes anything, but the sensible one watches his steps.
He replied, ‘Please speak to King Solomon since he won’t turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.’
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand.