When it's time to step aside As the years passed and King David grew older, his followers bickered over who would be his successor. Haggith, the mother of Adonijah and General Joab, maneuvered to gain control for Adonijah. However, both the prophet Nathan and Bathsheba reminded David that he had promised the throne to Solomon.
June 18, 2013 - Church Central
Robert Pinsky in Washington Post Some of the sages,Pinsky writes, "go so far as to claim that David did not sin, that he contemplated the act with Bathsheba but did not go through with it!"