1 Kings 1:6

_AND HIS FATHER HAD NOT DISPLEASED HIM AT ANY TIME IN SAYING, WHY HAST THOU DONE SO? AND HE ALSO WAS A VERY GOODLY MAN; AND HIS MOTHER BARE HIM AFTER ABSALOM._ His father had not displeased him. х_ `ªTSAABOW_ (H6087), had pained, grieved him; Septuagint, apekooluse, prevented, challenged him] AT ANY TIME, х_ MIYAAMAAYW_ (H3117), from his days, all his life (cf. 1 Samuel 25:28; Job 38:12)]. AND HIS MOTHER BARE HIM AFTER ABSALOM. This supplement by our translators is apt to convey the impression that the same wife gave birth to both. But Maachah, not Haggith, was the mother of Absalom (2 Sam

5-10 Indulgent parents are often chastised with disobedient children, who are anxious to possess their estates. No worldly wisdom, nor experience, nor sacredness of character, can insure the continuance in any former course of those who remain under the power of self-love. But we may well wonder by what arts Joab and Abiathar could be drawn aside....

HAD NOT DISPLEASED HIM - i. e. “His father had never checked or thwarted him all his life.” A VERY GOODLY MAN - Here, too, Adonijah resembled Absalom 2 Samuel 14:25. The Jews, like the other nations of antiquity, regarded the physical qualities of rulers as of great importance, and wished their kings to be remarkable for strength, stature, and beauty 1 Samuel 9:2. Adonijah’s personal advantages no doubt helped to draw the people to him. HIS MOTHER ... - i. e. Haggith bare Adonijah after Maacah bare Absalom 2 Samuel 3:3. The words in italics are not in the original; hence, some, by a slight alteration, read

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

AND HIS FATHER HAD NOT DISPLEASED HIM AT ANY TIME,.... Always humoured him in everything, let him have his own way and will, and granted him what he desired, and never corrected him for his faults, or made him ashamed, as the Targum, by telling him of them, and chastising him for them; this was not to the credit of David, being guilty of the same sin with Eli; and on this Adonijah presumed much, that he would not contradict and countermand in this as he had not in other things before: IN SAYING, WHY HAST THOU DONE SO? never so much as asked a reason of his conduct, so far was he from reproving him for it: AND HE [ALSO] WAS A VERY GOODLY [MAN]; of a comely countenance, tall and well proportioned, as his brother Absalom, and which was another thing on which he built his hopes of succeeding in his enterprise; for in those times, as in later times, and other nations, a comely aspect and pe...

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 ...

HIS MOTHER: i.e. "Haggith". See 1 Kings 1:5....

_had not displeased him at any time_ Had never administered a rebuke whatever wrong act he might have done. We may almost judge that Absalom was in like manner a spoilt child, brought under no correction. _a very goodly_man] A fine and commanding figure was no small recommendation for an aspirant to a throne. Compare the account of Saul's personal appearance (1 Samuel 9:2). _and_his mother _bare him after Absalom_ The Hebrew has -and she bare him &c.," the italics _his mother_being added in A.V. to mark that the verb in the original is feminine. The same device is adopted in Numbers 26:59. But the English of the A.V. in the present passage might be taken to mean that Absalom and Adonijah were both sons of Haggith, whereas Absalom's mother ...

AND HIS FATHER HAD NOT DISPLEASED HIM AT ANY TIME— Strange weakness in parents and cruelty to their children, to suffer them to become incorrigible in error, or inveterate in vice, rather than restrain and correct them while correction is kindness! An extreme indulgence to his children, seems to have been one of David's greatest failings. Houbigant renders the last clause of the verse, _and he was born to,_ or _begotten by David after Absalom:_ for not _Haggith,_ but _Maacah,_ was the mother of Absalom. 2 Samuel 3:3....