12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
13Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn`t you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
15Bath-sheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
16Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?
17She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
18Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don`t know it:
