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.