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!’