Joab and ran off.

Now David was sitting between the two gates, and when the negro came, he
said, "Let my lord receive the good news; Jehovah has punished for you
this day all those who rose up against you.'" David said to the negro,
"Is it well with the young Absalom?" The negro answered, "May the
enemies of my lord and all who rebel against you to harm you be as that
young man!"

Then David was very sad and went up to the chamber over the gate and
wept. As he wept he said, "My son Absalom, my son, O my son Absalom! Oh
that I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!" And it was reported
to Joab, "The ruler of Israel is weeping and mourning for Absalom." So
for all the people the victory that day was turned to mourning, because
they heard that David was mourning for his son. Therefore, the people
stole away into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they
have run away in battle. But David covered his face and cried aloud, "My
son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"

HOW SOLOMON BECAME THE RULER OF ISRAEL

Now when David was old, Adonijah thought, "I will be ruler of Israel."
So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run
before him. His father, David, had never in his life troubled him by
saying, "Why have you done thus and so?" Adonijah was very good-looking
and was the next younger son after Absalom. He also had made an
agreement with Joab and with Abiathar the priest to help him. But Zadok
the priest and Benaiah and Nathan the prophet, as well as Shimei and Rei
and David's famous warriors, were not on his side.

Adonijah held a feast and killed for it sheep, oxen, and fat beasts by
the Serpent's Stone, which is beside the Fuller's Spring; and he invited
to the feast all his brothers and all the royal officials of Judah; but
he did not invite the prophet Nathan nor Benaiah nor the famous warriors
nor his brother Solomon.

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard
that Adonijah has been made ruler without David our lord knowing it?
Now, therefore, let me advise you that you may save your own life and
the life of your son Solomon. Go at once to David and say to him, 'Did
you not, my lord, solemnly promise your servant that Solomon your son
should rule after you? Why then has Adonijah been made ruler?' While you
are still talking with him, I will come in and repeat your words."

So Bathsheba went into David's room; he was very old, and Abishag