So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
Here is, I. Solomon's accession to the throne, Kg1 2:12. He came to it much more easily and peaceably than David did, and much sooner saw his government established. It is happy for a kingdom when the end of one good reign is the beginning of another, as it was here. II. His just and necessary removal of Adonijah his rival, in order to the establishment of his throne.
Commenting on 1 Kings 2:12-25
And now I ask one petition of thee,.... And but one, and a small one too, as Bathsheba herself after calls it: deny me not, or "turn not away my face" (t); with shame and sorrow, which would be the case should he be denied: and she said unto him, say on; let me hear it. (t) "ne avertere facias faciem meam", Pagninus.
1Ki 2:13-18 Adonijah forfeits his life. - 1Ki 2:13-18. Adonijah came to Bathsheba with the request that she would apply to king Solomon to give him Abishag of Shunem as his wife. Bathsheba asked him, “Is peace thy coming?” i.e., comest thou with a peaceable intention? (as in 1Sa 16:4), because after what had occurred (1Ki 1:5.) she suspected an evil intention.
Commenting on 1 Kings 2:13-18