^{5 Ref} 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.

^{6 Ref} His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

^{7 Ref} He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

^{8 Ref} But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

^{9 Ref} Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:

^{10 Ref} but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.