1Ki 2:22 | ESV | STEP | King Solomon answered his mother , And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah ? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother , and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah .

a[See ver. 17 above]

1 Kings 2:22

22 King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask ^aAbishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, ^bfor he is my older brother, and on his side ^care Abiathar ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew and for him and for Abiathar} the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”