Adonijah, son of Haggith said, “I will be king.” He conferred with Joab, son of Zeruiah, with Abiathar the priest, who sided with him. The angry Adonijah sacrificed sheep and cattle, fat cattle at the stone of Zoheleth, which is adjacent to the well of Rogel, and he invited his brethren and all the men of Judah to attend. But he did not invite the hero and prophet Nathan and Benaiah and his brother Solomon.
Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah has become king and David our lord doesn’t know it? Now go to King David, and tell him, ‘My lord and king has sworn to me that your son Solomon shall be king. Why then has Adonijah become king?’ While you are speaking, I Nathan, will also come in after you and finish speaking.”