8. When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, AMASA came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.

9. Joab said to AMASA, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took AMASA by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

10. But AMASA took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

11. One of Joab's young men stood by him, and said, "He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"

12. AMASA lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried AMASA out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

5. "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to AMASA the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

6. Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol 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. "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous 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.'

9. Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

10. David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David's city.

11. The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

12. Solomon sat on David his father's throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

13. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, "Do you come peaceably?"He said, "Peaceably.

14. He said moreover, I have something to tell you."She said, "Say on."

15. He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother's; for it was his from The LORD.

16. Now I ask one petition of you. Don't deny me."She said to him, "Say on."

17. He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."

18. Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

19. Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

20. Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me."The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you."

21. She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

22. King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."

23. Then king Solomon swore by The LORD, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

24. Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David's throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today."

25. King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

26. To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord God's ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."

27. So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to The LORD, that he might fulfill The LORD's word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

28. This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn't follow Absalom. Joab fled to The LORD's Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

29. King Solomon was told, "Joab has fled to The LORD's Tent, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him."

30. Benaiah came to The LORD's Tent, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come out!'"He said, "No; but I will die here."Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."

31. The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

32. The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and AMASA the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.