1 Kings 1:1-10

Now King David was old and advanced in age.  Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.  So his servants said to him, “Let us  search for a young virgin for my lord the king.  She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.” They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag  the Shunammite  , and brought her to the king. The girl was of unsurpassed beauty,  and she became the king’s caregiver. She attended to him, but he was not intimate with  her. Adonijah son of Haggith  kept exalting himself, saying, “I will be king! ” He prepared chariots, cavalry, and fifty men to run ahead of him.  , But his father had never once infuriated  him by asking, “Why did you do that? ”  In addition, he was quite handsome  and was born after Absalom.  He conspired  with Joab son of Zeruiah  and with the priest Abiathar.  They supported  Adonijah, but the priest Zadok,  Benaiah son of Jehoiada,  the prophet Nathan,  Shimei,  Rei, and David’s royal guard  , did not side with Adonijah. Adonijah sacrificed sheep, goats, cattle, and fattened cattle near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel.  He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king,  but he did not invite the prophet Nathan, Benaiah, the royal guard, or his brother Solomon.