¹⁸ So now, look! Adonijah has become king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know about it.

²⁴ And Nathan said, “My lord, O king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?

¹⁷ “Yet now, brethren, I know that ^(A)you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

²⁷ Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not told your servant who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

¹¹ So Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of ^(A)Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?

⁵ Then ^(A)Adonijah the ^[a]son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will ^[b]be king”; and ^(B)he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

¹⁰ Then Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom ^(A)reigns in Hebron!’ ”