1 Kings 1:48

the Lord God See on 1 Kings 1:30.

givenone to sit Of course he means -one of my own family and the one whom I specially wished." The LXX. adds here the words -of my seed" and a like addition is made in some of the other versions. There can however be no misunderstanding of the king's meaning without any such supplement. The king's thankfulness was not for anoccupier, but for the particular person now put on the throne.

The report brought by Jonathan (1 Kings 1:43-48) seems like the language of one who had been a spectator of what he relates. If this were so, we must assume king David to have been carried from his bedchamber into some reception-room where he could listen, as he lay, to the congratulations mentioned in 1 Kings 1:47. The adding on of one particular after another, with the repetition of the same conjunction ונם = and also, is exactly after the style of a messenger in great haste.