1. Now King David was old and advanced in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.
2. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be found for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king and care for him, and let her lie by your side so that my lord the king may keep warm.”
3. So they searched for a beautiful young woman throughout the land of Israel and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4. She was very beautiful and cared for the king and ministered to him, but the king did not know her intimately.
5. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king,” and he assembled chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run before him.
6. His father had not confronted him at any time by asking, “Why have you done this?” He also was a very attractive man, and he was born next after Absalom.
7. He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they agreed to help him.
8. But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David’s mighty men did not join Adonijah.
9. Adonijah slaughtered sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the Stone of Zoheleth, which is by En Rogel, and invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
10. But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or his brother Solomon.
11. Therefore Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns and David our lord does not know it?
12. Now please come and let me give you some advice, so that you may save your own life as well as that of your son Solomon.