Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. BATHSHEBA 2SA 11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 2SA 11:3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 2SA 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 2SA 11:5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant." 1KI 1:11 Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king without our lord David's knowing it? 1KI 1:12 Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon. 1KI 1:13 Go in to King David and say to him, 'My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: "Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?' 1KI 1:14 While you are still there talking to the king, I will come in and confirm what you have said." 1KI 1:15 So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the Shunammite was attending him. 1KI 1:16 Bathsheba bowed low and knelt before the king. "What is it you want?" the king asked. 1KI 1:17 She said to him, "My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: 'Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.' 1KI 1:18 But now Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not know about it. 1KI 1:19 He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant. 1KI 1:20 My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 1KI 1:21 Otherwise, as soon as my lord the king is laid to rest with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be treated as criminals." 1KI 1:22 While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived. 1KI 1:23 And they told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground. 1KI 1:24 Nathan said, "Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne? 1KI 1:25 Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. Right now they are eating and drinking with him and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!' 1KI 1:26 But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he did not invite. 1KI 1:27 Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" 1KI 1:28 Then King David said, "Call in Bathsheba." So she came into the king's presence and stood before him. 1KI 1:29 The king then took an oath: "As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble, 1KI 1:30 I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place." 1KI 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling before the king, said, "May my lord King David live forever!" 1KI 2:13 Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, "Do you come peacefully?" He answered, "Yes, peacefully." 1KI 2:14 Then he added, "I have something to say to you." "You may say it," she replied. 1KI 2:15 "As you know," he said, "the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the LORD. 1KI 2:16 Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me." "You may make it," she said. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1973, 1978, 1984 INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY 1KI 2:17 So he continued, "Please ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife." 1KI 2:18 "Very well," Bathsheba replied, "I will speak to the king for you." 1KI 2:19 When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat down at his right hand. 1KI 2:20 "I have one small request to make of you," she said. "Do not refuse me." The king replied, "Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you." 1KI 2:21 So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah." 1CH 3:5 and these were the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon. These four were by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel. 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