1 En toe die dae van Dawid nader kom dat hy sou sterwe, het hy sy seun Salomo bevel gegee en gesê:
2 Ek gaan heen op die weg van die hele aarde: wees dan sterk en word 'n man;
3 en onderhou die ordening van die HERE jou God deur te wandel in sy weë, deur sy insettinge, sy gebooie en sy verordeninge en sy getuienisse te onderhou, soos geskrywe is in die wet van Moses, sodat jy voorspoedig kan uitvoer alles wat jy doen, en alles waartoe jy jou begewe;
4 sodat die HERE sy woord mag vervul wat Hy oor my gespreek het, naamlik: As jou seuns ag gee op hulle weg deur voor my aangesig getrou te wandel met hulle hele hart en met hulle hele siel, dan sal daar nie vir jou 'n man op die troon van Israel ontbreek nie.
5 En jy weet ook self wat Joab, die seun van Seruja, my aangedoen het; wat hy die twee leërowerstes van Israel, Abner, die seun van Ner, en Am sa, die seun van Jeter, aangedoen het; hoe hy hulle vermoor en oorlogsbloed in vredestyd vergiet het, sodat hy die gord wat om sy heupe en die skoene wat aan sy voete was, met oorlogsbloed bevlek het.
6 Handel dan na jou wysheid, en sy grys hare moet jy nie met vrede in die doderyk laat neerdaal nie.
7 Maar aan die seuns van Bars¡llai, die Gileadiet, moet jy guns bewys, en hulle moet wees onder die wat aan jou tafel eet; want so het hulle na my toe aangekom toe ek vir jou broer Absalom gevlug het.
8 Verder is daar by jou S¡me‹, die seun van Gera, die Benjaminiet, uit Bahurim; hy naamlik het my gevloek met 'n hewige vloek die dag toe ek na Mahan im gegaan het; en hy het afgekom om my te ontmoet by die Jordaan, sodat ek vir hom by die HERE gesweer en gesê het: Ek sal jou nie met die swaard doodmaak nie.
9 Maar nou moet jy hom nie ongestraf laat bly nie, want jy is 'n wyse man; daarom sal jy weet wat jy hom moet aandoen, dat jy sy grys hare met bloed in die doderyk laat neerdaal.
10 Toe het Dawid ontslaap met sy vaders, en hy is begrawe in die stad van Dawid.
11 En die dae wat Dawid oor Israel geregeer het, was veertig jaar; in Hebron het hy sewe jaar geregeer, en in Jerusalem het hy drie en dertig jaar geregeer.
12 Daarna het Salomo op die troon van sy vader Dawid gaan sit, en sy koningskap is goed bevestig.
13 Toe kom Adonia, die seun van Haggit, na B tseba, die moeder van Salomo, en sy vra: Is jou koms vrede? En hy antwoord: Vrede.
14 Verder sê hy: Ek het 'n woord vir u. En sy antwoord: Spreek.
15 En hy sê: U weet dat die koningskap myne was en die hele Israel sy aangesig op my gerig het, dat ek koning sou word; maar die koningskap het oorgegaan en my broer s'n geword, want deur die HERE was dit vir hom bestem.
16 En nou doen ek een versoek aan u; wys my nie af nie. En sy antwoord hom: Spreek.
17 Toe sê hy: Spreek tog met koning Salomo, want hy sal u nie afwys nie, dat hy Ab¡sag, die Sunamitiese, aan my as vrou moet gee.
18 En B tseba sê: Goed, ,k sal met die koning oor jou spreek.
19 Toe B tseba dan ingaan na koning Salomo om met hom oor Adonia te spreek, het die koning opgestaan om haar te ontmoet en voor haar gebuig; daarna het hy op sy troon gaan sit en vir die moeder van die koning 'n stoel laat neersit, en sy het aan sy regterhand plaas geneem.
20 Toe sê sy: Een klein versoek doen ek aan u; wys my nie af nie. En die koning antwoord haar: Vra, my moeder, want ek sal u nie afwys nie.
21 En sy sê: Laat Ab¡sag, die Sunamitiese, aan u broer Adonia as vrou gegee word.
22 Daarop antwoord koning Salomo en sê aan sy moeder: Maar waarom vra u Ab¡sag, die Sunamitiese, vir Adonia? Vra ook die koningskap vir hom, want hy is my broer wat ouer is as ek, ja, vir hom en vir Abjatar, die priester, en vir Joab, die seun van Seruja!
23 En koning Salomo het gesweer by die HERE en gesê: Mag God so aan my doen en so daaraan toedoen -- sekerlik, Adonia het hierdie woord ten koste van sy lewe gespreek.
24 En nou, so waar as die HERE leef wat my bevestig het en my op die troon van my vader Dawid laat sit en vir my 'n huis gestig het volgens sy belofte -- Adonia sal sekerlik vandag gedood word!
25 Daarop het koning Salomo gestuur deur die diens van Ben ja, die seun van Jojada; en die het op hom aangeval, sodat hy gesterf het.
26 En vir Abjatar, die priester, sê die koning: Gaan na Anatot op jou grond, want jy verdien die dood; maar vandag sal ek jou nie doodmaak nie, omdat jy die ark van die Here HERE voor my vader Dawid uit gedra het en omdat jy deelgenoot was van alles wat my vader gely het.
27 So het Salomo dan Abjatar verdrywe, sodat hy nie meer priester van die HERE was nie, om die woord van die HERE te vervul wat Hy oor die huis van Eli in Silo gespreek het.
28 Toe die gerug by Joab kom -- want Joab was aan die kant van Adonia, alhoewel hy nie aan die kant van Absalom was nie -- het Joab gevlug na die tent van die HERE en die horings van die altaar vasgehou.
29 En aan koning Salomo is meegedeel: Joab het gevlug na die tent van die HERE, en kyk, daar is hy by die altaar! Toe laat Salomo aan Ben ja, die seun van Jojada, weet: Gaan heen, val op hom aan.
30 Daarop het Ben ja by die tent van die HERE gekom en vir hom gesê: So spreek die koning: Kom uit. Maar hy sê: Nee, want hier wil ek sterf. En Ben ja het die koning 'n antwoord gebring en gesê: So het Joab gespreek, en so het hy my geantwoord.
31 Toe beveel die koning hom: Doen soos hy gespreek het: val op hom aan, en begrawe hom, sodat jy die onskuldige bloed wat Joab vergiet het, van my en my vader se huis af verwyder;
32 en dat die HERE sy bloed op sy eie hoof laat neerkom, omdat hy op twee manne, regverdiger en beter as hy, aangeval en hulle met die swaard vermoor het sonder medewete van my vader Dawid: Abner, die seun van Ner, die leërowerste van Israel, en Am sa, die seun van Jeter, die leërowerste van Juda;
33 en dat hulle bloed op die hoof van Joab en op die hoof van sy nageslag vir ewig kan neerkom, maar Dawid en sy nageslag en sy huis en sy troon vrede kan hê van die HERE tot in ewigheid.
34 Toe het Ben ja, die seun van Jojada, opgegaan en op hom aangeval en hom gedood; en hy is begrawe in sy huis in die woestyn.
35 Daarop het die koning Ben ja, die seun van Jojada, in sy plek oor die leër aangestel; en Sadok, die priester, het die koning aangestel in die plek van Abjatar.
36 Verder het die koning S¡me‹laat roep en vir hom gesê: Bou vir jou 'n huis in Jerusalem, en jy moet daar woon en mag daarvandaan nie uitgaan, nêrens heen nie;
37 die dag dat jy uitgaan en oor die spruit Kidron trek, moet jy voorwaar weet dat jy sekerlik sal sterwe; jou bloed sal op jou hoof wees.
38 En S¡me‹sê vir die koning: Dit is goed; soos my heer die koning gespreek het, so sal u dienaar doen. En S¡me‹het baie dae in Jerusalem gebly.
39 Maar aan die einde van drie jaar het twee van S¡me‹se slawe weggeloop na Agis, die seun van M äga, die koning van Gat; en aan S¡me‹is meegedeel en gesê: Jou slawe is daar in Gat.
40 Toe maak S¡me‹klaar en saal sy esel op en vertrek na Gat, na Agis toe, om sy slawe te soek; en S¡me‹het gegaan en sy slawe van Gat af gebring.
41 Maar aan Salomo is meegedeel dat S¡me‹uit Jerusalem na Gat weggegaan en teruggekom het.
42 Daarop laat die koning S¡me‹roep, en hy sê vir hom: Het ek jou nie by die HERE besweer en jou gewaarsku nie en gesê: Die dag dat jy uitgaan en êrens heen trek, moet jy voorwaar weet dat jy sekerlik sal sterwe? En jy het aan my gesê: Dit is goed; ek het gehoor.
43 Waarom het jy dan die eed by die HERE en die gebod wat ek jou opgelê het, nie gehou nie?
44 Verder sê die koning vir S¡me‹: Jy ken self al die boosheid waar jou hart van weet, wat jy my vader Dawid aangedoen het; daarom laat die HERE jou boosheid op jou eie hoof neerkom.
45 Maar mag koning Salomo geseënd wees en die troon van Dawid bevestig word voor die aangesig van die HERE tot in ewigheid!
46 Daarop gee die koning bevel aan Ben ja, die seun van Jojada: die het uitgegaan en op hom aangeval, sodat hy gesterf het.
1 Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,
2 I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;
3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,
4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.
6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
7 But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.
8 Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.
9 But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.
10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.
11 David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
12 And Solomon took his place on the seat of David his father, and his kingdom was made safe and strong.
13 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you in peace? And he said, Yes, in peace.
14 Then he said, I have something to say to you. And she said, Say on.
15 And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.
16 Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.
17 Then he said, Will you go to Solomon the king (for he will not say, No, to you) and put before him my request that he will give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife?
18 And Bath-sheba said, Good! I will make your request to the king.
19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.
20 Then she said, I have one small request to make to you; do not say, No, to me. And the king said, Say on, my mother, for I will not say, No, to you.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.
22 Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.
23 Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.
24 Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.
25 And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.
26 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
27 So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.
28 And news of this came to Joab; for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters, though he had not been on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of the Lord, and put his hands on the horns of the altar.
29 And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him.
30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.
31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.
32 And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
33 So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.
34 So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.
35 And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.
36 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.
37 For be certain that on the day when you go out and go over the stream Kidron, death will overtake you: and your blood will be on your head.
38 And Shimei said to the king, Very well! as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And for a long time Shimei went on living in Jerusalem.
39 But after three years, two of the servants of Shimei went in flight to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And word was given to Shimei that his servants had gone to Gath.
40 Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.
41 And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.
42 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well!
43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the order which I gave you?
44 And the king said to Shimei, You have knowledge of all the evil which you did to David my father; and now the Lord has sent back your evil on yourself.
45 But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.
46 So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.