1 Kings 1:1-10

1King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.

2So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord. She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”

3So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king.

4The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.

5About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him.

6Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.

7Adonijah took Joab son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest into his confidence, and they agreed to help him become king.

8But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s personal bodyguard refused to support Adonijah.

9Adonijah went to the Stone of Zoheleth near the spring of En-rogel, where he sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened calves. He invited all his brothers—the other sons of King David—and all the royal officials of Judah.

10But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the king’s bodyguard or his brother Solomon.