Cookie & Bean: 1 #Kings 1 New International Version (NIV) Adonijah Sets Himself Up as #King 1 When King #David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2 So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young #virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.” 3 Then they searched throughout #Israel for a #beautiful #young #woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her. 5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, “I will be king.” So he got #chariots and #horses [a] ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. 6 (His father had never #rebuked him by asking, “Why do you behave as you do?” He was also very #handsome and was born next after Absalom.) 7 Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the #priest, and they gave him their #support. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, #Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David’s special guard did not join Adonijah. #bible #biblejournaling #bibleverse #biblestudy #bibles #bibleverses