12. So now come, please let me give you counsel and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
13. Go at once to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord, O king, sworn to your maidservant, saying, "Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?'
14. "Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
15. So Bathsheba went in to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
16. Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, "What do you wish?"
17. She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God, saying, 'Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.'
18. Now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know it.
19. He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
20. As for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21. Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders."
22. Behold, while she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.