27. If this message was from my master the king, you didn’t make it known to your servant. Who should follow you on the throne of my master the king?"
28. King David answered, "Bring me Bathsheba." She came and stood before the king.
29. The king made a solemn pledge and said, "As surely as the Lord lives, who rescued me from every trouble,
30. regarding what I swore to you by the Lord, Israel’s God, ‘Your son Solomon will certainly succeed me; he will sit on the throne after me’—I’ll see that it happens today."
31. Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground. She honored the king and said, "May my master King David live forever!"
32. King David said, "Bring me Zadok the priest, the prophet Nathan, and Benaiah, Jehoiada’s son." They came to the king,
33. who said to them, "Take with you the servants of your masters. Put my son Solomon on my mule and bring him down to Gihon.
34. There Zadok the priest and the prophet Nathan will anoint him king over Israel. Blow the ram’s horn and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
35. You will follow him. He will enter and sit on my throne, and so he will succeed me as king. I have appointed him to become ruler over Israel and Judah."