16 Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself [1]before the king . And the king said , "What [2]do you wish?" 17 She said to him, "My lord , you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God , saying, ' Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne .' 18 "Now , behold , Adonijah is king ; and now , my lord the king , you do not know it. 19 " He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance , and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army , but he has not invited Solomon your servant . 20 "As for you now, my lord the king , the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21 "Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers , that I and my son Solomon will be considered [3]offenders ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Kings 1:16-21
Commentary on 1 Kings 1:11-31
(Read 1 Kings 1:11-31)
Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Revelation 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lord redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animated him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death.