¹⁸ Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it:

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

¹⁰ But 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 is king in Hebron.

⁵ Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

¹¹ Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?

²⁷ Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

¹⁷ "Now, brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.