¹³ Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. So she said, “^(A)Do you come peacefully?” And he said, “Peacefully.”

²² When ^[a]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he ^[b]answered, “What ‘peace,’ ^(A)so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”

¹⁷ David went out to meet them, and said to them, “If you come peacefully to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no ^[a]wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and decide.”

¹⁸ Then ^(A)the Spirit ^[a]covered ^(B)Amasai like clothing, the chief of the thirty; and he said,

Then David received them and made them ^[b]captains of the troops.