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David’s Instructions to Solomon

¹Now ⚓the days of David drew near that he should die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying: ²⚓“I go the way of all the earth; ⚓be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. ³And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may ⚓prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn; ⁴that the Lord may ⚓fulfill His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, ⚓‘If your sons take heed to their way, to ⚓walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,’ He said, ⚓‘you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
⁵“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah ⚓did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to ⚓Abner the son of Ner and ⚓Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet. ⁶Therefore do ⚓according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to the grave in peace.
⁷“But show kindness to the sons of ⚓Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who ⚓eat at your table, for so ⚓they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
⁸“And see, you have with you ⚓Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But ⚓he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and ⚓I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ ⁹Now therefore, ⚓do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but ⚓bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”

Death of David

¹⁰So ⚓David rested with his fathers, and was buried in ⚓the City of David. ¹¹The period that David ⚓reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. ¹²⚓Then Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was ⚓firmly established.

Solomon Executes Adonijah

¹³Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. So she said, ⚓“Do you come peaceably?”
And he said, “Peaceably.” ¹⁴Moreover he said, “I have something to say to you.”
And she said, “Say it.”
¹⁵Then he said, “You know that the kingdom was ⚓mine, and all Israel had set their expectations on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom has been turned over, and has become my brother’s; for ⚓it was his from the Lord. ¹⁶Now I ask one petition of you; do not deny me.”
And she said to him, “Say it.”
¹⁷Then he said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me ⚓Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
¹⁸So Bathsheba said, “Very well, I will speak for you to the king.”
¹⁹Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and ⚓bowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king’s mother; ⚓so she sat at his right hand. ²⁰Then she said, “I desire one small petition of you; do not refuse me.”
And the king said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
²¹So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
²²And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also—for he is my ⚓older brother—for him, and for ⚓Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” ²³Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, ⚓“May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life! ²⁴Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a house for me, as He ⚓promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
²⁵So King Solomon sent by the hand of ⚓Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.

Abiathar Exiled, Joab Executed

²⁶And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to ⚓Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, ⚓because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.” ²⁷So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might ⚓fulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.
²⁸Then news came to Joab, for Joab ⚓had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and ⚓took hold of the horns of the altar. ²⁹And King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord; there he is, by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, ⚓strike him down.” ³⁰So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ⚓‘Come out!’ ”
And he said, “No, but I will die here.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
³¹Then the king said to him, ⚓“Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, ⚓that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed. ³²So the Lord⚓will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous ⚓and better than he, and killed them with the sword—⚓Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and ⚓Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it. ³³Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and ⚓upon the head of his descendants forever. ⚓But upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord.”
³⁴So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. ³⁵The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king put ⚓Zadok the priest in the place of ⚓Abiathar.

Shimei Executed

³⁶Then the king sent and called for ⚓Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere. ³⁷For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross ⚓the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; ⚓your blood shall be on your own head.”
³⁸And Shimei said to the king, “The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do.” So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
³⁹Now it happened at the end of three years, that two slaves of Shimei ran away to ⚓Achish the son of Maachah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Look, your slaves are in Gath!” ⁴⁰So Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. ⁴¹And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back. ⁴²Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and travel anywhere, you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ‘The word I have heard is good.’ ⁴³Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the commandment that I gave you?” ⁴⁴The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know, as your heart acknowledges, ⚓all the wickedness that you did to my father David; therefore the Lord will ⚓return your wickedness on your own head. ⁴⁵But King Solomon shall be blessed, and ⚓the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.”
⁴⁶So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the ⚓kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

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Davĩt Tĩeih Atỡng Trỗ Parsốt

¹Bo Davĩt cheq ta-ŏh rangứh, án arô Sa-lamôn con samiang án cớp tĩeih atỡng trỗ parsốt tháng neq: ²“Tangái cứq cuchĩt khoiq cheq toâq chơ; cóq mới cỡt roan cớp clŏ́q. ³Cóq mới táq puai samoât samơi lứq máh ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu mới. Cóq mới trĩh máh ŏ́c án patâp cớp dũ santoiq án khoiq ớn Môi-se chĩc dŏq tâng Tâm Saráq Phễp Rit; cóq mới táq puai, chơ dũ ranáq mới táq lứq pân cỡt. ⁴Khân mới táq puai, Yiang Sursĩ ễ yống níc máh ŏ́c án khoiq ữq chơ, bo án pai neq: ‘Con châu mới lứq bữn cỡt sốt mantái níc tỗp I-sarel, khân alới trĩh máh santoiq cứq patâp nheq tễ mứt pahỡm cớp nheq tễ rangứh rahỡ.’
⁵“Noâng bữn muoi ranáq ễn, mới khoiq dáng chơ tễ ranáq Yô-ap táq chóq cứq, bo án cachĩt bar náq cũai taniap tahan I-sarel, la Ap-nơ con samiang Nơ, cớp A-masa con samiang Yê-thê. Án cachĩt alới bo khoiq ien khễ, dŏq carláh dỡq yỗn cũai khoiq cuchĩt tâng ntốq rachíl. Án cachĩt cũai tỡ bữn lôih ntrớu; ma sanua cứq cóq roap tôt tễ ranáq án táq, cớp cứq cóq chĩuq ŏ́c bap ki. ⁶Mới dáng raloaih chơ cóq mới táq nŏ́q; cóq mới chỗi yỗn án cuchĩt ien khễ.
⁷“Ma mới cóq táq o chóq máh con samiang Basi-lai tễ tỗp Ki-liat, cớp nhêng salĩq tỗp alới. Yuaq tỗp alới táq o chóq cứq mpoaq, bo cứq lúh tễ Ap-salôm, ai mới.
⁸“Ma noâng bữn muoi noaq ễn, ramứh Si-mê con samiang Ke-ra tễ tỗp Ben-yamin, tễ vil Bahu-rim. Tữ cứq pỡq chu vil Maha-nêm, án lóc acrieiq cứq a‑ĩ lứq. Ma toâq án bữn ramóh cứq pỡ crỗng Yôr-dan, cứq khoiq thễ dũan samoât samơi lứq nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ la cứq tỡ bữn cachĩt án. ⁹Ma mới chỗi acláh yỗn án pỡq ien khễ, ariang cũai tỡ bữn tôt ntrớu. Mới dáng cóq táq nŏ́q; cóq mới yỗn án roap tôt cuchĩt.”

Davĩt Cuchĩt

¹⁰Chơ puo Davĩt cuchĩt, cớp noau tứp án pỡ Vil Davĩt. ¹¹Án cỡt puo cũai I-sarel pỗn chít cumo; cỡt puo tâng vil Hep-rôn tapul cumo, cớp tâng vil Yaru-salem pái chít la pái cumo. ¹²Sa-lamôn chỗn cỡt puo pláih loah puo Davĩt, mpoaq án; cớp chớc án cỡt khâm lứq.

Adô-nacha Cuchĩt

¹³Chơ Adô-nacha, con samiang niang Hakit, pỡq ramóh Bat-si-ba, mpiq puo Sa-lamôn. Bat-si-ba blớh án neq: “Mới toâq sa‑óh cứq trỗ nâi bũi óh tỡ?”
Án ta‑ỡi: “Ơq, bũi óh!” ¹⁴Chơ án pai ễn neq: “Cứq sễq blớh muoi ramứh tễ mới, têq tỡ?”
Bat-si-ba blớh loah: “Ntrớu mới ễ blớh?”
¹⁵Án ta‑ỡi: “Mới dáng chơ, pĩeiq lứq la cứq cỡt puo, cớp dũ náq cũai I-sarel ỡt ngcuang tễ ranáq nâi. Ma ranáq nâi cỡt rapĩen chíq; chơ a‑ễm samiang cứq ễn bữn cỡt puo, yuaq Yiang Sursĩ yoc ngkíq. ¹⁶Ma sanua, cứq bữn muoi ŏ́c, sễq mới chỗi calỡih ŏ́c cứq sễq.”
Bat-si-ba blớh án: “Ŏ́c ntrớu?”
¹⁷Án ta‑ỡi: “Cứq ễq mới sễq tễ puo Sa-lamôn yỗn cứq bữn ĩt niang Abi-sác la cumũr tỗp Sunêm dŏq táq lacuoi; cứq dáng lứq án yỗn ŏ́c ntrớu mới sễq.”
¹⁸Bat-si-ba ta‑ỡi: “Têq! Cứq pỡq blớh puo yỗn mới.”
¹⁹Yuaq ngkíq, Bat-si-ba pỡq blớh puo yỗn Adô-nacha. Puo yuor tayứng, chơ án pũp yám noap mpiq án. Chơ án chỗn tacu tâng cachơng puo, cớp ớn cũai ĩt cachơng yỗn mpiq án tacu coah atoam án. ²⁰Bat-si-ba pai neq: “Cứq mpiq yoc ễ sễq tễ con muoi ramứh ca cớt sâng; sễq con bũi pahỡm yỗn.”
Án blớh neq: “Ntrớu mpiq ễ sễq? Cứq con lứq yỗn ramứh ntrớu mpiq yoc ễ bữn.”
²¹Mpiq án ta‑ỡi: “Cứq mpiq sễq con chiau niang Abi-sác yỗn Adô-nacha ai mới dŏq táq lacuoi.”
²²Puo blớh loah neq: “Cỗ nŏ́q mpiq sễq cứq chiau niang Abi-sác yỗn án? Khân ngkíq, nŏ́q mpiq tỡ sễq yỗn cứq chiau dếh chớc puo yỗn án? Án la ai cứq, cớp bữn Abia-tha cũai tễng rit sang, dếh Yô-ap con samiang niang Sê-ruya, pruam cớp án!”⚓
²³Chơ puo Sa-lamôn parkhán nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ neq: “Khân cứq tỡ bữn cachĩt Adô-nacha cỗ án khoiq sễq ranáq tỡ cỡt ŏ́c nneq, ki sễq Ncháu cachĩt táh chíq cứq! ²⁴Yiang Sursĩ khoiq chóh cứq yỗn bữn tacu tâng cachơng puo Davĩt, mpoaq cứq, mantái níc; Ncháu yống níc santoiq án khoiq par‑ữq ễ chiau cruang cutễq yỗn cứq, cớp con châu cứq. Yuaq ngkíq, cứq sễq thễ dũan nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ, la Yiang ca tamoong níc, tangái nâi toâp Adô-nacha cóq cuchĩt!”
²⁵Chơ puo Sa-lamôn ớn Be-naya pỡq cachĩt Adô-nacha; cớp Be-naya táq puai ariang puo ớn.

Sa-lamôn Tuih Abia-tha Cớp Cachĩt Yô-ap

²⁶Chơ puo Sa-lamôn pai chóq Abia-tha la cũai tễng rit sang neq: “Cóq mới píh chu loah pỡ vil Ana-thôt la vil tiaq mới. Pĩeiq lứq la mới cóq cuchĩt; ma cứq tỡ bữn cachĩt mới sanua nâi, yuaq bo mới ỡt cớp puo Davĩt, mpoaq cứq, mới khoiq nhêng salĩq Hĩp Parnai Parkhán, cớp mới khoiq pruam chĩuq túh tỡ la ien khễ parnơi cớp án.”
²⁷Moâm ki, puo Sa-lamôn alíh chớc Abia-tha tỡ yỗn án cỡt cũai tễng rit sang Yiang Sursĩ noâng. Ranáq ki cỡt rapĩeiq ariang Yiang Sursĩ khoiq pai tễ tŏ́ng toiq Hê-li pỡ vil Si-lô.
²⁸Toâq Yô-ap sâng tễ máh ranáq ngkíq, chơ án lúh chu Dống Sang Aroâiq tâng vil Yaru-salem, cớp yống tacoi tâng prông sang. (Yuaq án khoiq pruam cớp Adô-nacha, ma án tỡ bữn pruam cớp Ap-salôm.) ²⁹Tữ puo Sa-lamôn sâng noau pai Yô-ap khoiq lúh pỡ Dống Sang Aroâiq, ngkíq án ớn cũai pỡq blớh Yô-ap neq: “Cỗ nŏ́q mới lúh pỡ Dống Sang Aroâiq?”
Yô-ap ta‑ỡi: “Cứq lúh toâq poâng Yiang Sursĩ cỗ sâng ngcŏh puo Sa-lamôn.”⚓
Yuaq ngkíq, puo Sa-lamôn ớn Be-naya pỡq cachĩt chíq Yô-ap. ³⁰Be-naya pỡq chu Dống Sang Aroâiq, cớp pai chóq Yô-ap neq: “Puo ớn mới loŏh toâp tễ ntốq ki.”
Yô-ap ta‑ỡi: “Tỡ ễq! Cứq yoc ễ cuchĩt bân ntốq nâi.”
Chơ Be-naya píh chu atỡng puo Sa-lamôn ariang Yô-ap khoiq pai.
³¹Puo Sa-lamôn atỡng neq: “Cóq mới táq ariang Yô-ap pai; cachĩt cớp tứp án. Dống sũ mpoaq cứq, cớp cứq tỡ bữn roap tôt tễ án cuchĩt, yuaq án khoiq cachĩt cũai tỡ bữn lôih ntrớu. ³²Yiang Sursĩ yỗn án roap tôt la cỗ tian án khoiq cachĩt cũai, ma mpoaq cứq tỡ bữn dáng. Yô-ap cachĩt bar náq cũai tỡ bữn lôih, la Ap-nơ cũai taniap tahan tỗp I-sarel, cớp A-masa la cũai taniap tahan tỗp Yuda. Ma alới bar náq ki tanoang o hỡn tễ Yô-ap. ³³Tôt tễ Yô-ap cachĩt cũai toâq loah pỡ án cớp con châu án mantái níc. Ma Yiang Sursĩ ễ yỗn máh con châu puo Davĩt bữn ỡt ien khễ cớp cỡt puo pláih Davĩt mantái níc.”
³⁴Yuaq ngkíq, Be-naya pỡq chu Dống Sang Aroâiq cớp cachĩt Yô-ap; chơ dững tứp án yáng tiah vil tâng cutễq Yô-ap ndỡm. ³⁵Puo chóh Be-naya cỡt cũai taniap tahan pláih loah Yô-ap; cớp chóh Sadôc cỡt cũai tễng rit sang pláih loah Abia-tha.

Si-mê Cuchĩt

³⁶Vớt ki, puo ớn cũai pỡq coâiq Si-mê cớp atỡng án neq: “Cóq mới táq dống tâng vil Yaru-salem dŏq mới ỡt, cớp chỗi loŏh tễ vil, chơ pỡq chu canŏ́h. ³⁷Khân mới pỡq luat tễ tũm Ki-trôn, mới lứq cuchĩt; cớp mới roap tôt bữm tễ ranáq ki.”
³⁸Si-mê ta‑ỡi neq: “O lứq, puo hếq ơi! Hếq ễ táq puai machớng anhia khoiq atỡng.”
Yuaq ngkíq, án ỡt dũn tâng vil Yaru-salem.
³⁹Ma toâq pái cumo ễn, bữn bar náq cũai sũl Si-mê lúh chu Akit con samiang Maca, la puo vil Cat. Tữ Si-mê dáng bar náq sũl án ỡt tâng vil Cat, ⁴⁰ngkíq án ỡt aséh dễn pỡq ramóh puo Akit tâng vil Cat, pỡq chuaq bar náq cũai sũl án. Án ramóh alới cớp dững alới píh chu loah. ⁴¹Toâq puo Sa-lamôn sâng tễ ranáq Si-mê táq, ⁴²ngkíq án ớn noau pỡq coâiq Si-mê cớp blớh neq: “Cứq khoiq ớn mới thễ dũan nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ, lứq ma tỡ bữn? Cớp cứq khoiq catoaih mới chơ, tangái léq mới loŏh tễ vil Yaru-salem, tangái ki toâp mới cuchĩt. Cớp mới khoiq par‑ữq chơ mới ễ trĩh cứq. ⁴³Cỗ nŏ́q mới tỡ bữn táq puai machớng santoiq mới khoiq par‑ữq cớp cứq? ⁴⁴Mới dáng chơ tễ dũ ranáq lôih mới khoiq táq chóq puo Davĩt, mpoaq cứq. Yiang Sursĩ ễ manrap mới la cỗ tễ ranáq nâi. ⁴⁵Ma Yiang Sursĩ ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn cứq, cớp án ễ táq yỗn cruang cutễq puo Davĩt noâng mantái níc.”
⁴⁶Puo Sa-lamôn ớn Be-naya dững aloŏh Si-mê cớp cachĩt án. Chơ dũ ramứh chớc cỡt khong puo Sa-lamôn nheq.