And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
Adonijah ... came to Bath-sheba. Her question to him, "Comest thou peaceably?" betrays an apprehension which his recent conduct might well warrant; but his pious acknowledgment of the divine will seemed apparently to indicate so entire an acquiescence in the settlement of the succession, that, in her womanly simplicity, she did not perceive not the deep cunning and evil design that was concealed under his request, and readily undertook to promote his wishes.