“Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.”

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my elder brother, you might as well ask the kingship for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.”

Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.

Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

But the Lord said to my father David,
“Since it was your desire to build a temple for My name,
you have done well to have this desire.

‘Your silver and your gold are mine! And your best wives and children are mine as well!’”