⁹ Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel.^(A) He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king,^{(B) 10} but he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the warriors, or his brother Solomon.^(C)

Nathan’s and Bathsheba’s Appeals

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