14. While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report.”
15. So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters. (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)
16. Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said, “What do you want?”
17. She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’
18. But now, look, Adonijah has become king! But you, my master the king, are not even aware of it!
19. He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
20. Now, my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne.
21. If a decision is not made, when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, my son Solomon and I will be considered state criminals.”
22. Just then, while she was still speaking to the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.
23. The king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” Nathan entered and bowed before the king with his face to the floor.
24. Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?