And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
The verse belongs to the first eleven chapters of 1 Kings, which record the life of Solomon, following the history of Samuel and Saul in 1 Samuel and the history of the kingdom under David in 2 Samuel, and coming before the history of the kings after the division of the kingdom in the remainder of 1 Kings and in 2 Kings. It belongs to the account of Solomon's accession after David's death, when Solomon carried out the measures his father had charged him to take to secure the throne. It stands in the record of God bringing upon Shimei the just reward of his wickedness after David fled Jerusalem from Absalom, when Shimei came out and cursed David and cast stones and dust upon him and his men and accused David of being a wicked, bloody man and delighted in naming his calamities as evidence God was not with him, which David bore meekly.
The verse records Bath-sheba agreeing to speak to Solomon, the king, for Adonijah. The request she agreed to carry was part of a shrewd plot to gain the kingdom, since possession of the former king's concubine could give Adonijah a stronger claim among the people. Her agreement to intercede was part of the course leading to Adonijah's rebellion and death. That rebellion and death was part of the retribution that followed David's wicked conduct toward Uriah through all the rest of his life, principally in his own family, alongside the matter of Amnon and Tamar and the rebellion and unnatural crimes of Absalom. It proves that wrongdoing brings calamity and sorrow back upon the wrongdoer in the very kind of evil caused to others, and that sin pays in its own kind.
The verse belongs to the first eleven chapters of 1 Kings, which record the life of Solomon, following the history of Samuel and Saul in 1 Samuel and the history of the kingdom under David in 2 Samuel, and coming before the history of the kings after the division of the kingdom in the remainder of 1 Kings and in 2 Kings. It belongs to the account of Solomon's accession after David's death, when Solomon carried out the measures his father had charged him to take to secure the throne. It stands in the record of God bringing upon Shimei the just reward of his wickedness after David fled Jerusalem from Absalom, when Shimei came out and cursed David and cast stones and dust upon him and his men and accused David of being a wicked, bloody man and delighted in naming his calamities as evidence God was not with him, which David bore meekly.
The verse records Bath-sheba agreeing to speak to Solomon, the king, for Adonijah. The request she agreed to carry was part of a shrewd plot to gain the kingdom, since possession of the former king's concubine could give Adonijah a stronger claim among the people. Her agreement to intercede was part of the course leading to Adonijah's rebellion and death. That rebellion and death was part of the retribution that followed David's wicked conduct toward Uriah through all the rest of his life, principally in his own family, alongside the matter of Amnon and Tamar and the rebellion and unnatural crimes of Absalom. It proves that wrongdoing brings calamity and sorrow back upon the wrongdoer in the very kind of evil caused to others, and that sin pays in its own kind.