[1:5] Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
[1:6] His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.
[1:7] He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.
[1:8] But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David’s mighty men were not with Adonijah.
[1:9] Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-Rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,
[1:10] but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.