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Verse 1 Kings 1:21. _SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS._] When Adonijah and
his party shall find that I and my son have had this promise from thee
by oath, he will slay us both....
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SHALL SLEEP - This euphemism for death, rare in the early Scriptures -
being found only once in the Pentateuch (margin reference.), and once
also in the historical books before Kings 2 Samuel 7:12 - b...
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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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SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16.
OFFENDERS. See App-44....
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_counted offenders_ The Heb. word is literally -sinners." Bath-sheba
does not go so far as Nathan, and say that the lives of herself and
her son are in peril, but leaves the king to think what the lot...
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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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_OTHERWISE IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN MY LORD THE KING SHALL SLEEP
WITH HIS FATHERS, THAT I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED
OFFENDERS._
I and my son ... shall be counted offenders - i:e., slain,...
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1:21 sleep (c-13) 'Elsewhere 'lie.'...
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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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SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS. — Here this phrase, so constantly used
in the record of the death of the kings, occurs in these books for the
first time. (It is also found in the message of promise by N...
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וְ הָיָ֕ה כִּ שְׁכַ֥ב אֲדֹנִֽי ־הַ
מֶּ֖לֶךְ
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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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_Offenders. I, as guilty of adultery; and my son, as a mamzer;
(Deuteronomy xxiii. 2.; Tirinus) or we shall be accounted pretenders,
(Haydock) and condemned as guilty of high treason. (Calmet) --- Our...
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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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OTHERWISE IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN MY LORD THE KING SHALL SLEEP
WITH HIS FATHERS,.... That is, shall die, and be buried in the
sepulchre of his ancestors, where he shall lie till he awakes in the
m...
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Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep
with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders.
Ver. 21. _Shall be counted offenders._] Heb., Sinners. _Erim...
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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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Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep
with his fathers, in the sleep awaiting the great day of resurrection,
THAT I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS, treated...
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ADONIJAH ATTEMPTS TO SEIZE THE KINGDOM...
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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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OFFENDERS:
_ Heb._ sinners...
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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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SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS, i.e. die as his fathers did. See GENESIS
47:30. I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS; we shall be
punished with death as malefactors, as guilty of practicing a...
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1 Kings 1:21 happen H113 king H4428 rests H7901 (H8800) fathers H1 son
H1121 Solomon H8010 offenders...
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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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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 1:20 Bathsheba is concerned that, if David
does not appoint Solomon as the next king, she and her son will be
treated as rivals for the throne (COUNTED OFFENDERS). Their lives...
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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 2:10; 1 Kings 2:15; 1 Kings 2:22; Deuteronomy 31:16;...