1 Kings 1:5-10 - Adonijah Seeks David's Throne

⁵ And Adonijah, son of Haggith being lifted up, saying, I will reign; and he will make to himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ⁶ And his father grieved him not from his days, saying, Wherefore didst thou thus? and he good of form, exceedingly; and she bare him after Absalom. ⁷ And his words will be with Joab, son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they will help after Adonijah. ⁸ And Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, son of Jehoida, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty which were to David, were not with Adonijah.

⁹ And Adonijah will sacrifice sheep and oxen and the fatling, by the stone of Zoheleth, which is next the fountain of the fuller, and he will call all his brethren the king's sons, and for all the men of Judah the king's servants: ¹⁰ And Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty, and Solomon his brother, he called not