1 Kings 1:28-30

Good News Translation

²⁸ King David said, “Ask Bathsheba to come back in”—and she came and stood before him. ²⁹ Then he said to her, “I promise you by the living Lord, who has rescued me from all my troubles, ³⁰ that today I will keep the promise I made to you in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, that your son Solomon would succeed me as king.”