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

Nathan and Bathsheba Before David

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

^19 (A)He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, ^(B)Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but ^(C)Solomon your servant he has not invited.

²¹ Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king ^(A)sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”

^26 (A)But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.