Then Adonijah son of Haggith went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come in peace?”
The fourth son was Adonijah. Adonijah’s mother was Haggith. The fifth son was Shephatiah. Shephatiah’s mother was Abital.
But Nathan heard about this and went to Solomon’s mother Bathsheba. Nathan asked her, “Have you heard what Haggith’s son, Adonijah, is doing? He is making himself king. And our master, King David, knows nothing about it.
I have something to say to you.”