Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible
1 Kings 1:1-4
1-4 We have David sinking under infirmities. He was chastised for his recent sins, and felt the effects of his former toils and hardships.
1-4 We have David sinking under infirmities. He was chastised for his recent sins, and felt the effects of his former toils and hardships.
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS -Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 2989. -Year before the Incarnation, 1015. -Year from the destruction of Troy, according to Dionysius of Halicarn...
NOW - Rather, “and.” The conjunction has here, probably, the same sort of connecting force which it has at the opening of Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, etc., and implies that the historian regards his wor...
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...
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...
king David: Occurs in 2 Samuel 6:12 2 Samuel 6:16. 2 Samuel 7:18; 2 Samuel 8:8...
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS, commonly called, THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS Ch. 1 Kings 1:1-4. David's Feeble Age (Not in Chronicles) 1. _Now_ The Hebrew has only the conjunction usually rendered _A...
NOW KING DAVID WAS OLD, &C.— It appears from 2 Samuel 5:4 that he was seventy years old. The strength of nature was so far abated in him, that clothes could not keep him warm in his bed. His physician...
I. THE CONSPIRACY OF ADONIJAH 1:1-10 David's final years were full of turmoil and tribulation and even as he lay critically ill and at the point of death he was yet to experience one last heartbreak....
_NOW KING DAVID WAS OLD AND STRICKEN IN YEARS; AND THEY COVERED HIM WITH CLOTHES, BUT HE GAT NO HEAT._ Now king David was old. He was in the 70th year of his age (2 Samuel 5:4); but the wear and tear...
1:1 age; (a-9) Lit. 'days.'...
NOW] better, 'and,' connecting this book with the history contained in the preceding....
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...
NOW KING DAVID. — “Now” is the simple illative conjunction “and,” found at the beginning of all the historical books (Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, &c.). It marks the general concep...
וְ הַ מֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ זָקֵ֔ן בָּ֖א בַּ
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...
DAVID'S DECREPITUDE 1 Kings 1:1. "Praise a fair day at night." THE old age of good men is often a beautiful spectacle. They show us the example of a mellower wisdom, a larger tolerance, a sweeter t...
A SELF-SEEKER'S SCHEME 1 Kings 1:1 Adonijah was the fourth son of David, but probably the oldest of those who survived. He was born after Absalom, and like him was goodly in appearance, ambitious in...
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...
Now king David was (a) old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no (b) heat. The Argument - Because the children of God should expect no continual rest and quietness...
_Years; sixty-nine, as he died when he was seventy years old. (Calmet) (2 Kings v. 4.) --- Warm. Though David was of a strong constitution, he had been so much exposed to fatigue, and so harassed with...
CONTENTS David, in his old age, unable to keep warmth, hath an handmaid provided to cherish him. Adonijah, his son, taking advantage of David's imbecility, usurpeth the kingdom. Solomon, by David's d...
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...
_A TROUBLED OLD AGE_ ‘Old and stricken in years.’ 1 Kings 1:1 With the transition from 2 Samuel to 1 Kings, David passes from mature life into the physical feebleness of old age. For nearly forty y...
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...
NOW KING DAVID WAS OLD, [AND] STRICKEN IN YEARS,.... Was seventy years of age; for he was thirty years of age when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, 2 Samuel 5:4; this was just the age of...
Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Ver. 1. _Now king David was old._] His numbering the people is by some held to be the last act h...
_Now King David was old_ Being in the end of his seventieth year. _They covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat_ Which is not strange, considering he was a person who had been exercised with so m...
[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 ATTEMPTS TO SEIZE THE KINGDOM...
Now, King David was old and stricken in years, advanced in days, being about seventy years old at that time; AND THEY COVERED HIM WITH CLOTHES, BUT HE GAT NO HEAT. The extraordinary cares and overexer...
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...
STRICKEN IN YEARS: _ Heb._ entered into days...
1 KINGS CHAPTER 1 Abishag cherisheth David in his extreme age, 1 KINGS 1:1. Adonijah usurpeth the kingdom, 1 KINGS 1:5. By the counsel of Nathan to Bath-sheba, and their petition to David, he reneweth...
1 Kings 1:1 King H4428 David H1732 old H2204 (H8804) advanced H935 (H8804) years H3117 put H3680
SECTION 1. THE LAST DAYS OF DAVID (1:1-2:12). The ‘and' with which the book begins is clearly intended to link the book to the earlier books. The writer wanted it to be seen that he was carrying on th...
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,_...
_Now King David was old and stricken in years._ THE WINTER OF LIFE I. Overtakes men in the highest rank. II. Chills the vital sources of the naturally robust. “And they covered him with clothes, an...
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...
SCENES IN THE CLOSING CAREER OF A GREAT KING CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— The opening word, “now,” is _and_, the _cop_. ו indicating the unbroken connexion of this book with a prior record. Orig...
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 Chronicles 23:1; 1 Chronicles 29:27; 1 Chronicles 29:28; 2 Samuel 5:4;...
Old — Being in the end of his seventieth year. No heat — Which is not strange in a person who had been exercised with so many hardships in war, and with such tormenting cares, and fears, and sorrows,...