13. “Go immediately to Sovereign Dawiḏ and say to him, ‘Did you not, my master, O sovereign, swear to your female servant, saying, “Certainly, your son Shelomoh shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then has Aḏoniyahu become sovereign?’
14. “Look, while you are still speaking there with the sovereign let me come in after you and confirm your words.”
15. And Bathsheḇa went into the room to the sovereign. Now the sovereign was very old, and Aḇishag̅ the Shunammite was serving the sovereign.
16. And Bathsheḇa bowed and did obeisance to the sovereign. And the sovereign said, “What do you wish?”