12. Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
13. Go and get in unto king David, and say unto him, Did not you, my lord, O king, swear unto your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
14. Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
15. And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
16. And Bath-sheba bowed, and knelt before the king. And the king said, What would you?
17. And she said unto him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your God unto your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
18. And now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and now, my lord the king, you know it not: