. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. y which theEast affords. According to this view, Bathsheba—during tlie latter part of Davids reign,as mother of the heir apparent, and during at least the early portion of Solomons reign, asmother of the king,—was, in fact, the queen of Israel; whence in both periods we find liertaking a part in public affairs, which, however slight, is such as none but a woman so placedcould have taken. The first manifestation of Adonijahs design was to endeavour to procure permission toespouse Abishag, one of the
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. y which theEast affords. According to this view, Bathsheba—during tlie latter part of Davids reign,as mother of the heir apparent, and during at least the early portion of Solomons reign, asmother of the king,—was, in fact, the queen of Israel; whence in both periods we find liertaking a part in public affairs, which, however slight, is such as none but a woman so placedcould have taken. The first manifestation of Adonijahs design was to endeavour to procure permission toespouse Abishag, one of the wives of his father, whom he had taken in his last days and hadleft a virgin. He had the address to interest Bathsheba in his object, and to get her to proposethe subject to the king, although part of what he said to her as an inducement was well cal-culated to awaken her suspicions : Thou knowest, said he, that the kingdom was mine,and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign; howbeit the kingdom is turnedabout, and is become my brothers, for it was his from the
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