1 Kings 1:13

_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 THRONE? WHY THEN DOTH ADONIJAH REIGN?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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 1:13. _GO AND GET THEE IN UNTO KING DAVID_] He knew that this woman had a sovereign influence over the king. If Bath-sheba was a source of pleasure to David, must she not also have been a source of pain to him? For could he ever forget the guilty manner in which he acquired her? _DIDST NOT THOU - SWEAR_] It is very likely that David made such an oath, and that was known only to Bath-sheba and Nathan. It is nowhere else mentioned....

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

GO AND GET THEE IN UNTO KING DAVID,.... That is, go into the chamber where the king lay, at once, without any ceremony: 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 THRONE? though no mention is elsewhere made of such an oath, there undoubtedly was one, of which Nathan had knowledge, either from David or Bathsheba, or from them both, or might be present himself at the making of it; for not only Bathsheba affirms it, 1 Kings 1:17; but David owns it and confirms it, 1 Kings 1:30; WHY THEN DOTH ADONIJAH REIGN? surely it cannot be with the king's knowledge and consent, so manifestly contrary to his promise and oath....

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 ...

DIDST NOT THOU. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. WHY THEN. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And behold". her"....

_Didst not thou … swear unto thine handmaid_ She uses terms of great humility, even though she be pleading the king's former solemn promise. We have no record of the oath to which Bath-sheba alludes, but we may be sure that the king had imparted to her the promise which God had made to him that Solomon should be his successor in the kingdom. The Hebrew particle כִּי, which is here and in 1 Kings 1:30 translated -assuredly", seems often not intended for anything more than a mark of quotation. Like the Greek ὄτι, when it stands before a direct quotation, it should be left in most cases untranslated. In 1 Kings 11:22 it is rendered -but", which would be better omitted. _shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne_ The fuller phrase seems intended to imply that Solomon should be in al

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