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Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life.
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Verse 12. Life. Both would have been in imminent danger, if the ambitious projects of Adonias succeeded, as he knew that the throne had been promised to Solomon by his father, and he would consider him as a dangerous rival. Calmet.—The Turkish emperors usually destroy or confine their brethren, when they commence their reign. Bible.
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