21. Otherwise, as soon as my lord the king is laid to rest with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be treated as criminals.”
22. While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.
23. And the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground.
24. Nathan said, “Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne?
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. Right now 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 forever!”