1 Kings 1:1-10

1Now King David was old, 1advanced in age; and they covered him with garments, but he could not keep warm. 2So his servants said to him, “Have them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and have her 2attend the king and become his nurse; and have her lie on your chest, so that my lord the king may keep warm.” 3So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the 3Shunammite, 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 4become intimate with her.

5Now 5Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So 6he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, with fifty men to run before him. 6And his father had never rebuked 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. 7Now 9he had conferred with 10Joab the son of Zeruiah and with 11Abiathar the priest; and they allied themselves with 12Adonijah. 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, oxen, and fattened steers 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, or his brother 20Solomon.