1 Kings 1:11

_WHEREFORE NATHAN SPAKE UNTO BATHSHEBA THE MOTHER OF SOLOMON, SAYING, HAST THOU NOT HEARD THAT ADONIJAH THE SON OF HAGGITH DOTH REIGN, AND DAVID OUR LORD KNOWETH IT NOT?_ Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba ......

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 all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Revelation 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lord redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animated him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death....

Verse 1 Kings 1:11. _HAST THOU NOT HEARD THAT ADONIJAH THE SON OF HAGGITH_ _DOTH REIGN_] He was now considered as being legally appointed to the regal office, and no doubt was about to begin to perform its functions....

THE SON OF HAGGITH - Compare the margin reference. This expression was well chosen to touch the pride of Bath-sheba. “Adonijah; not thy son, but the son of thy rival, Haggith.”...

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 that event. The author, or compiler, evidently considered that his work properly began with the reign of Israel's third king, and David's illness and death are only introduced into the narrative because they necessitated a hasty and premature coronation of Solomon, and exercised an important influence on the beginning of his reign (1 Kings 2:1). In the natural order of events, Solomon would not have succeeded until his father's death, but Adonijah's attempt to possess himself of the kingdom required the immediate elevation of Sol

WHEREFORE NATHAN SPAKE UNTO BATHSHEBA THE MOTHER OF SOLOMON,.... Who not only had an interest in the king, being his wife, and an easy access to him, but had a special concern in this affair, as it affected her son, to whom the succession of the kingdom was designed and promised: SAYING, HAST THOU NOT HEARD THAT ADONIJAH THE SON OF HAGGITH DOTH REIGN? has usurped the throne, and is proclaimed king by a party, who at least have drank his health as such; has taken the title, and is about to exercise the power of a king; this Bathsheba might not have heard of, and which he expresses in this manner to quicken her to make an immediate application to the king: AND DAVID OUR LORD KNOWETH [IT] NOT; being so infirm, and in his bed, and nobody about him to inform him of it; it was done without his knowledge, and far from being with his consent and approbation....

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 (1 Kings 1:5) 3. The plot of Nathan and Bath-sheba (1 Kings 1:10) 4. Bath-sheba and Nathan before the king (1 Kings 1:15) David was about 70 years old and extremely feeble. The strenuous life he had led, the exposures and hardships of his youth, the cares and anxieties of his reign, and the chastenings through which he passed on account of his great sin, and much else were responsible for thi

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 of actual events, told with complete impartiality, and without any attempt to comment favourably or otherwise on the events related. David is represented as a very aged man nursed by his youngest wife, Abishag the Shunammite (1 Kings 1:3). Her beauty is especially noticed as it may have caused the death of David's son, Adonijah. Shunem, her native place, was a slope overlooking the plain of Esdraelon near Jezreel, and she is the Shulammite in the Song of Songs (Ca. 1 Kings 6:13). The pivot around which all revolves is the succession. The chief claimant was Adonijah the son of Haggith ...

Nathan's counsel to Bath-sheba (Not in Chronicles) 11. _Bath-sheba_ She who had before been the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Nathan's zeal for Solomon's cause may be well understood, because it was by his message (2 Samuel 12:25) that Solomon was specially called the -beloved of the Lord." _doth reign_ As though the work were already completed and Adonijah already assured of the throne....

I. THE COUNTER-MEASURES OF NATHAN 1:11-27 Adonijah's designs might have succeeded had it not been for the swift action of Nathan and Bathsheba. In narrating how the throne was made secure for Solomon, the author reports (1) Nathan's wise counsel to Bathsheba (1 Kings 1:11-14); (2) Bathsheba's impassioned plea to David (1 Kings 1:15-21); and (3) Nathan's confirmatory speech before the king (1 Kings 1:22-27). A. NATHAN'S WISE COUNSEL 1:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) Therefore Nathan said onto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon: Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord does not know it? (12) Now therefore, come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, th