1. Now King David was old, advanced in years. Though they covered him with clothes, he could not keep warm.
2. So his servants said to him: “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and be his nurse; and let her lie by your side, so my lord the king may keep warm.”
3. So they sought for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4. The girl was very beautiful. So she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king was not intimate with her.
5. Now Adonijah son of Haggith exalted himself, saying: “I’ll be king!” So he prepared for himself chariots, horsemen and 50 men to run before him.
6. His father had not scolded him at any time by asking: “Why have you behaved this way?” He was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
7. So he conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the kohen. Following Adonijah, they supported him.
8. But Zadok the kohen, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei and David’s mighty men, were not on Adonijah’s side.
9. Then Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen and fattened cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside 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 Solomon.