Solomon's Failure to Be a Father

David doesn't even know what his kids are doing. What we have here is Adonaija making himself king and David knows nothing about this. Bathsheba and Nathan have to kind of basically plot to get David to do the right thing, to announce Solomon as the king. Now, again, if he was paying attention to his family, David would have seen this coming. So what happens? He announces he does the right thing but he has to be brought to that place because for as gifted as David is, when it comes to being a dad, he in many ways is a failure.