14. “Look, while you are still speaking there with the sovereign let me come in after you and confirm your words.”
15. And Bathsheḇa went into the room to the sovereign. Now the sovereign was very old, and Aḇishag̅ the Shunammite was serving the sovereign.
16. And Bathsheḇa bowed and did obeisance to the sovereign. And the sovereign said, “What do you wish?”
17. And she said to him, “My master, you swore by יהוה your Elohim to your female servant, saying, ‘Certainly, Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’
18. “And now, look! Aḏoniyah has become sovereign. And now, my master the sovereign, you do not know about it.
19. “And he has offered great numbers of bulls and fatlings and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the sovereign, and Eḇyathar the priest, and Yo’aḇ the commander of the army, but he did not invite Shelomoh your servant.