1 Kings 1:21

Adonijah Tries To Become King

²⁰ And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. ²¹ Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be considered offenders. ²² And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

My Lord the King

Solomon

Deuteronomy 31:16

And LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shall sleep with thy fathers. And this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant whic

1 Kings 2:10

And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Genesis 15:15

But thou will go to thy fathers in peace; thou will be buried in a good old age.

2 Samuel 7:12

When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

1 Kings 2:15

And he said, Thou know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was his from LORD.

1 Kings 2:22-24

And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother, even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of