21. If you don't, as soon as you are dead my son Solomon and I will be treated as traitors.”
22. She was still speaking, when Nathan arrived at the palace.
23. The king was told that the prophet was there, and Nathan went in and bowed low before the king.
24. Then he said, “Your Majesty, have you announced that Adonijah would succeed you as king?
25. This very day he has gone and offered a sacrifice of many bulls, sheep, and fattened calves. He invited all your sons, Joab the commander of your army, and Abiathar the priest, and just now they are feasting with him and shouting, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
26. But he did not invite me, sir, or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah, or Solomon.
27. Did Your Majesty approve all this and not even tell your officials who is to succeed you as king?”
28. King David said, “Ask Bathsheba to come back in” — and she came and stood before him.
29. Then he said to her, “I promise you by the living Lord, who has rescued me from all my troubles,
30. that today I will keep the promise I made to you in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, that your son Solomon would succeed me as king.”
31. Bathsheba bowed low and said, “May my lord the king live for ever!”
32. Then King David sent for Zadok, Nathan, and Benaiah. When they came in,
33. he said to them, “Take my court officials with you; let my son Solomon ride my own mule, and escort him down to the spring of Gihon,
34. where Zadok and Nathan are to anoint him as king of Israel. Then blow the trumpet and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
35. Follow him back here when he comes to sit on my throne. He will succeed me as king, because he is the one I have chosen to be the ruler of Israel and Judah.”
36. “It shall be done,” answered Benaiah, “and may the Lord your God confirm it.
37. As the Lord has been with Your Majesty, may he also be with Solomon, and make his reign even more prosperous than yours.”
38. So Zadok, Nathan, Benaiah, and the royal bodyguard put Solomon on King David's mule, and escorted him to the spring of Gihon.