Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
Why dost
The kingdom
Bible References
Why dost
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered [and] said, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
The kingdom
1 Kings 1:5
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him.