Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Kings 1:53
Lead a private or retired and quiet life, without noise and numerous attendants, and meddle not with the affairs of the court and kingdom.
Lead a private or retired and quiet life, without noise and numerous attendants, and meddle not with the affairs of the court and kingdom.
Verse 1 Kings 1:53. _GO TO THINE HOUSE._] Intimating that he should have no place about the king's person, nor under the government. Adonijah must have seen that he stood continually on his good behav...
2. THE ANOINTING OF SOLOMON AND ADONIJAH'S SUBMISSION CHAPTER 1:28-53 _ 1. The renewed promise to Bath-sheba (1 Kings 1:28)_ 2. The anointing of Solomon commanded (1 Kings 1:32) 3. Solomon made ki...
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...
_and they brought him down from the altar_ The expression refers perhaps to the steps on which Adonijah must have gone up to cling to the sides of the altar, or it may be to the elevation of the whole...
C. THE APPREHENSION OF ADONIJAH 1:41-53 While Jerusalem was jubilant at the coronation of a new king, the assembly at En-rogel was filled with fear and apprehension. The two paragraphs of this section...
_SO KING SOLOMON SENT, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN FROM THE ALTAR. AND HE CAME AND BOWED HIMSELF TO KING SOLOMON: AND SOLOMON SAID UNTO HIM, GO TO THINE HOUSE._ They brought him down - from the ledge a...
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...
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...
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֞ח הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה וַ יֹּרִד
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...
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...
JUSTICE AND BROTHERHOOD THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE 1 Kings 1:41 According to popular usage, Adonijah was the rightful heir to the throne. He was handsome and kingly in appearance and behavior. He w...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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...
_House. He does not forbid him the court, but grants him pardon. (Menochius)_...
REFLECTIONS READER! do not overlook, in the melancholy view which is given us in this chapter of poor David's cold and perishing body, what dying worms the greatest of men are; and how sure and certai...
(51) And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay...
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...
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...
SO KING SOLOMON SENT, AND THEY BROUGHT DOWN ADONIJAH FROM THE ALTAR,.... It being built upon an hill, as both that at Gibeon, and in Araunah's threshing floor, were: AND HE CAME AND BOWED HIMSELF TO...
So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house. Ver. 53. _Go to thine house._] Meddle not...
_And Solomon said_, &c. Solomon did not swear unto him, as he desired, but only declared that he gave him a full pardon for what was past, on condition that he behaved himself as became a good subject...
[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...
Adonijah's Life Spared...
So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. "Solomon regarded Adonijah's flight to the horns of the altar as a confession of his guilt and repentance, and he exercised an act of cl...
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...
32-53 The people expressed great joy and satisfaction in the elevation of Solomon. Every true Israelite rejoices in the exaltation of the Son of David. Combinations formed upon evil principles will s...
1 Kings 1:53 King H4428 Solomon H8010 sent H7971 (H8799) down H3381 (H8686) altar H4196 came H935 ...
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,...
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,_...
_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...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 1:50. CAUGHT HOLD ON THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR: an act by which he appealed to God and man that his life, forfeited by his attempted usurpation of the throne, mig...
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...
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...
1 Kings 1:16; 1 Kings 1:31; 1 Kings 2:36; 2 Samuel 1:2; 2 Samuel 14:24
Go to thine house — Lead a private life, without noise and numerous attendants, and meddle not with the affairs of the kingdom....