1 Kings 1:1-10

1Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm. 2So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her 1attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.” 3So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the 2Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not 3cohabit with her.

5Now 4Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So 5he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen with fifty men to run before him. 6His father had never 6crossed him at any time by asking, “Why have you done so?” And he was also a very handsome man, and 78he was born after Absalom. 79He had conferred with 10Joab the son of Zeruiah and with 11Abiathar the priest; and following 12Adonijah they helped him. 8But 13Zadok the priest, 14Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, 15Nathan the prophet, 16Shimei, Rei, and 17the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

9Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the 18stone of Zoheleth, which is beside 19En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants. 10But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, and 20Solomon his brother.