1 Kings 1:16-18

Lexham English Bible

¹⁶ Bathsheba knelt and bowed down before the king, and the king asked, “What do you want?”^{[a] 17} She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, ‘Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!’ ¹⁸ But now, look! Adonijah has become king! And now, my lord the king, you do not know!