Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded to the king: “So be it! May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it!

While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report.”

Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”