25. Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king’s sons, the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. At this very moment they are eating and drinking with him and saying, “Long live King Adonijah!”
26. But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he did not invite.
27. Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?’
28. Then King David said, ‘Call in Bathsheba.’ So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.
29. The king then took an oath: ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
30. I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.’
31. Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, ‘May my lord King David live for ever!’
32. King David said, ‘Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.’ When they came before the king,
33. he said to them: ‘Take your lord’s servants with you and put Solomon my son on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
34. There shall Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, “Long live King Solomon!”