1 Kings 1:1-10

1Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.

2Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm."

3So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

4The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.

5Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

6His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.

7He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.

8But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.

9Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,

10but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.