Be Alert Against The Enemy’s Underhanded Tactics
Hi GAMErs,
There are many lessons we can learn from today’s passage, 1 Kings 2:13-27. Let’s go!
1 Kings 2:17 (NIV)
17 So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon–he will not refuse you–to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
On verses 13-18: Here Adonijah goes to Bathsheba the king’s mother with a request: he asks for Abishag the Shunammite as his wife. Why? It’s not because Adonijah was in love with Abishag, as beautiful as she was. Rather it was a political move. Remember that Abishag was effectively David’s last concubine. Abishag lived with David, took care of David, slept in the same bed as David, though she never had sexual relations with David (see 1 Kings 1:3-4). Back in David’s time, whoever controlled the king’s harem was viewed as controlling the kingdom.

