12. and now, come, let me counsel thee, I pray thee, and deliver thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon;
13. go and enter in unto king David, and thou hast said unto him, Hast thou not, my lord, O king, sworn to thy handmaid, saying, Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne? and wherefore hath Adonijah reigned?
14. Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'
15. And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto the king, to the inner chamber, and the king [is] very aged, and Abishag the Shunammite is serving the king:
16. and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, `What--to thee?'
17. And she saith to him, `My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah thy God to thy handmaid: Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne;
18. and now, lo, Adonijah hath reigned, and now, my lord, O king, thou hast not known;
19. and he sacrificeth ox, and fatling, and sheep in abundance, and calleth for all the sons of the king, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab head of the host--and for Solomon thy servant he hath not called.
20. And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are] on thee, to declare to them who doth sit on the throne of my lord the king after him;
21. and it hath been, when my lord the king lieth with his fathers, that I have been, I and my son Solomon--[reckoned] sinners.'
22. And lo, she is yet speaking with the king, and Nathan the prophet hath come in;