{"id":61527,"date":"2019-08-20T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61527"},"modified":"2023-03-14T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:58:35","slug":"abishag-accessory-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/abishag-accessory-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Abishag, Accessory to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[911,483,600],"acf":{"old_id":"61527","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39842,"related_cahpter":"289","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And Bathsheba? Access to Power","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we meet Bathsheba at the beginning of I Kings, she appears much more powerful than she has previously been. In Chapter 1, she has negotiated with King David for her son Solomon\u2019s right to rule rather than one of his older brothers. It is this power, one can assume, that draws Adonijah to approach her in Chapter 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After he is not anointed as king, but watches his brother take the throne, Adonijah comes to Bathsheba with a request. \u201c\u201cPlease ask King Solomon\u2014for he won\u2019t refuse you\u2014to give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife,\u201d (2:17), he asks. Bathsheba is willing, and takes up his cause with her son the new king.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solomon, though, is not as acquescient to the request his mother brings before him as Adonijah expects. Not only does he not grant Adonijah\u2019s wish to marry their father\u2019s former attendant, Solomon treats this entreaty as a threat to his authority: \u201cWhy request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Request the kingship for him!\u201d (2:22). For Adonijah to marry Avishag, in Solomon\u2019s eyes, would be a declaration of his authority. Much like Absalom sleeping with David\u2019s concubines as part of his rebellion, for the king\u2019s son to engage with his father\u2019s woman attendant would be to claim his father\u2019s right to rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an attitude towards women in which they are commodities, representing and containing male power without being granted agency themselves. Abishag is not given the opportunity to express her own wishes; she is a metaphoric representation of David\u2019s authority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is notable that Bathsheba is willing to be the messenger for Adonijah\u2019s request. She does not refuse him on the grounds of solidarity with Abishag, even though Bathsheba herself was once similarly subject to the king\u2019s absolute power. Even for those of us who have experienced marginalization and the abuse of power, once we are granted access to the halls and thrones of power it is too easy to settle there. 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