"So King Solomon sent, and they brought Adonijah down from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, 'Go to your house.'" — The final act: Adonijah descends from the altar's sanctuary and performs *obeisance* (*va-yishtachav*) before Solomon. The gesture of submission is theologically significant—Adonijah acknowledges Solomon's kingship through his body language. Solomon's command—*lekh le-betekha* (go to your house)—is a dismissal that establishes Adonijah's status as exile, removed from court and power. The chapter closes with order restored, the succession secured, and Adonijah alive but politically neutralized. The pattern of 1 Kings 1—premature coronation followed by divinely-endorsed counter-coronation—becomes the template for the entire narrative that follows, establishing Solomon's kingship as authenticated by David, priest, prophet, and people.

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