Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Kings 1:7
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So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.
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And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].
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He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
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And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
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1 Kings 1
5 At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
6 (His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
7 So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.
8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
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