{"id":5077,"date":"2021-09-07T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:36:16","slug":"davids-charge-to-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"David&#8217;s Charge to Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 Kings 2:7f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be kind to the sons of Barzillai, <br>But not that son of Gera called Shimei. <br>That boy cursed me with a violent curse (8) <br>On that day when I went to Mahanaim. <br>Said, &#8220;I won&#8217;t put you to death by the sword.  <br>That traitor did us no good, <br>So don&#8217;t let him go without pain. <br>He&#8217;s going down, gonna lose his gain.&#8221; (9) <br>So said David to Solomon his son, <br>Then he died and was buried in Jerusalem. (10)  <br>Not bad; reigned for forty years: (11)   <br>Seven in the city of Hebron,<br>Thirty-three in Jerusalem.  <br>Then Solomon sat on the throne of Dave <br>And he taught the people to behave, (12)   <br>But Adonijah came to Bathsheba, <br>The mother of the King, Solomon.  <br>She said to that boy, &#8220;You come in peace?&#8221; <br>Said, &#8220;Yeah, but I got somethin&#8217; to say!&#8221; (14) <br>&#8220;You know I&#8217;m supposed to be king! (15)  <br>And can you do me a little favor?<br>There&#8217;s a girl I have come to savor. <br>She&#8217;s a Shunammite called Abishag.   <br>Her background is kind of a drag, (17)  <br>But she&#8217;s a fox; don&#8217;t want no hag!&#8221;  <br>&#8220;Okay,&#8221; said Bath, &#8220;I&#8217;ll talk to the king.   <br>You know I got a way to pull his string.&#8221; (18) <br>So she went to the king to speak for Adonijah. (19)   <br>The king bowed and said, &#8220;How can I do yah?&#8221; (19) <br>&#8220;Well,&#8221; said she, &#8220;Let Abishag marry your brother.&#8221;  <br>&#8220;What?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t she pick another?&#8221; (21)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0750 on 3 Sept., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Kings 2:7f. Be kind to the sons of Barzillai, But not that son of Gera called Shimei. That boy cursed me with a violent curse (8) On that day when I went to Mahanaim. Said, &#8220;I won&#8217;t put you to death by the sword. That traitor did us no good, So don&#8217;t let him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}