9. Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.”
10. So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
11. David reigned over Israel forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
12. So Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.
13. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come in peace?”And he said, “I come peaceably.”
14. Then he said, “I have something to say to you.”And she said, “Speak.”
15. He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel viewed me as the king. However, the kingdom has become my brother’s, for it was given to him by the Lord.