21. If you don't, as soon as you are dead my son Solomon and I will be treated as traitors.”
22. She was still speaking, when Nathan arrived at the palace.
23. The king was told that the prophet was there, and Nathan went in and bowed low before the king.
24. Then he said, “Your Majesty, have you announced that Adonijah would succeed you as king?
25. This very day he has gone and offered a sacrifice of many bulls, sheep, and fattened calves. He invited all your sons, Joab the commander of your army, and Abiathar the priest, and just now they are feasting with him and shouting, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’