¹⁸ And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge;

²⁴ And Nathan said, O my lord king, have you said, Adonijah is to be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom?

¹⁰ But Absalom at the same time sent watchers through all the tribes of Israel to say, At the sound of the horn you are to say, Absalom is king in Hebron.

⁵ Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

¹¹ Then Nathan said to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon, Has it not come to your ears that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has made himself king without the knowledge of David our lord?

²⁷ Has this thing been done by my lord the king, without giving word to your servants who was to be placed on my lord the king's seat after him?

¹⁷ And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.