"But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.'" — Nathan shifts the focus: those *not* invited become the counterweight. The *emphatic anaphora* (*va-ani othi avdekha*—but me, me your servant) places Nathan in the position of David's loyal functionary, excluded from Adonijah's ceremony. The listing of Zadok and Benaiah again positions them as alternative power centers—priests and military leaders whose absence from Adonijah's feast is theologically and politically significant. The repetition of *lo karah* (he did not invite) creates a parallelism that equates Nathan, Zadok, Benaiah, and Solomon as a bloc of *excluded loyalists*. Nathan's self-identification as *avdekha* (your servant) emphasizes his vassalage to David and thus his stake in true succession.

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