16 As Bathsheba bowed low, honoring the king, he said, "What do you want?" 17 "My master," she said, "you promised me in God's name, 'Your son Solomon will be king after me and sit on my throne.' 18 And now look what's happened - Adonijah has taken over as king, and my master the king doesn't even know it! 19 He has thrown a huge coronation feast - cattle and grain-fed heifers and sheep - inviting all the king's sons, the priest Abiathar, and Joab head of the army. But your servant Solomon was not invited. 20 My master the king, every eye in Israel is watching you to see what you'll do - to see who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him. 21 If you fail to act, the moment you're buried my son Solomon and I are as good as dead."
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.