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INTO THE CHAMBER - The “bed-chamber” or “inner chamber.”
Abishag was a disinterested witness present, who heard all that
Bath-sheba said to David....
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. DAVID'S LAST DAYS AND THE CROWNING OF SOLOMON
1. Adonijah's Exaltation to be King
CHAPTER 1:1-27
_ 1. David's decrepitude (1 Kings 1:1)_
2. Adonijah's self-exaltation...
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LAST DAYS OF DAVID AND ACCESSION OF SOLOMON. This chapter with the
following has many analogies with the court history of David (2 Samuel
11-20). The narrative bears every sign of an authentic account...
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Bath-sheba before King David (Not in Chronicles)
15. _and the king was very old_ This sentence is in explanation why
Bath-sheba went into the bedchamber of the king. David was too feeble
to go forth,...
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B. BATHSHEBA'S IMPASSIONED PLEA 1:15-21
TRANSLATION
(15) Then Bathsheba went unto the king to the chamber (now the king
was very old and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the
king). (16) An...
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_GO AND GET THEE IN UNTO KING DAVID, AND SAY UNTO HIM, DIDST NOT THOU,
MY LORD, O KING, SWEAR UNTO THINE HANDMAID, SAYING, ASSUREDLY SOLOMON
THY SON SHALL REIGN AFTER ME, AND HE SHALL SIT UPON MY THRO...
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AN INTRIGUE FOR THE SUCCESSION
This chapter relates Adonijah's attempt to obtain the succession, its
defeat through the agency of Nathan, and the enthronement of Solomon.
The history contained in it i...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
ABOUT THE BOOKS OF 1 KINGS AND 2 KINGS
AUTHOR
We do not know who wrote the books. Some people say that Jeremiah
did. He lived just before Jerusa...
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וַ תָּבֹ֨א בַת־שֶׁ֤בֶע אֶל ־הַ
מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ הַ
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AN EASTERN COURT AND HOME
1 Kings 1:1
"Pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness."
Ezekiel 16:49
A MAN does not choose his own destiny; it is ordained for higher ends
than his own persona...
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ADONIJAH'S REBELLION
1 Kings 1:5
"The king's word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest
thou?"- Ecclesiastes 8:4
THE fate of Amnon and of Absalom might have warned the son who was now
th...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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LEARNING THE KING'S WILL
1 Kings 1:15
The attempt of the usurper was met and defeated through Nathan's
prompt action, and by the concerted appeal that he and Bathsheba made
to the king, who seems to...
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The two Books of Kings appear in the Hebrew Bible as one. Together
they practically cover the whole period of kingly rule over the
ancient people. The first Book deals mainly with events centering
aro...
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(15) And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the
king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the
king. (16) And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. An...
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The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the
priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and
dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people
desi...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
Before David's death the iniquity and ambition of a son whom he "had
not displeased at any time "led to the solemn proclamation of Solomon,
to whom G...
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AND BATHSHEBA WENT IN UNTO THE KING INTO THE CHAMBER,.... Where he
lay, being bedridden; she took Nathan's advice, and directly went to
the king's apartment:
AND THE KING WAS VERY OLD: and decrepit,...
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And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was
very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
Ver. 15. _And the king was very old._] Yet little more than half...
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_Didst thou not, O king, swear unto thy handmaid?_ We do not read
anywhere else of this oath: but, no doubt, David had solemnly sworn to
her that he would make her son his successor, knowing that God...
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[ABISHAG. ADONIJAH HIS TREASON.]
1 Abishag cherisheth Dauid in his extreame age.
5 Adonijah, Dauids dearling, vsurpeth the kingdome.
11 By the counsel of Nathan,
15 Bath-sheba moueth the king,
22...
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ADONIJAH EXALTS HIMSELF
(vs.1-10)
Being 70 years old, David was near to death. He complained of the
cold, though well covered with blankets. His servants thought that a
young girl, a virgin, would he...
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11-31 Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel
how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the
counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give al...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 1:15 Bathsheba H1339 went H935 (H8799) chamber H2315 king
H4428 king H4428 very H3966 old H2204 ...
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CONTENTS: David's declining strength. Adonijah plots to seize kingdom.
Counter plot of Nathan and Bath-sheba. Solomon annointed.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Solomon, (Adonijah), Joab, Nathan, Bath-sheba,...
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1 Kings 1:2. _A young virgin._ This raised Abishag to the rank of a
betrothed wife. No doubt there were precedents for this conduct, but
history is silent on the subject.
1 Kings 1:5. _Then Adonijah,_...
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_Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself._
USURPATION
David is “old and stricken in years.” Round about him there are
certain proceedings which are almost always associated with the death
of...
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1 KINGS 1:1 The Reign of King Solomon. 1 Kings 1:1 describes the reign
of David’s son Solomon. Solomon was a great king when he obeyed God
and depended on God for wisdom, but his reign ended tragicall...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 1:16. BOWED AND DID OBEISANCE—The latter word denoting the
prostrate attitude customary in the East before kings.
1 Kings 1:21. SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS—Cou...
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EXPOSITION
THE REVOLT OF ADONIJAH AND THE ACCESSION OF SOLOMON.—The first
chapter of this book is occupied with the accession of Solomon and
with the circumstances which preceded, marked, and followed...
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Tonight let's turn to First Kings beginning with chapter one.
First Kings, of course, is just the continuation of the history of the
kings of Judah and Israel. First and Second Samuel are taken up pre...
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1 Kings 1:2...