1 Kings 1:5-10

The Voice

⁵ Adonijah, David and Haggith’s son, was full of conceit and praised himself incessantly.

Adonijah then arranged chariots with horsemen and also 50 men to run in front of his chariots.

⁶ Adonijah’s father, David, never questioned his actions. Adonijah was also a handsome man who was born after Absalom. ⁷ He discussed things with Joab (Zeruiah’s son and Adonijah’s cousin) and Abiathar the priest, and they became his coconspirators. ⁸ But Zadok the priest, Benaiah (Jehoiada’s son), Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the fierce and loyal men who were devoted to David, were against Adonijah.

⁹ He sacrificed sheep, oxen, and cattle that had been prepared for slaughter. He did this near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. Adonijah sent out invitations to all of his brothers, sons of the king, and also to all the men in Judah, who were all in service of the king. ¹⁰ Adonijah did not send an invitation to Nathan the prophet, to Benaiah, to any of the fierce and loyal men devoted to David, or to his brother Solomon.