1 Kings 1:6

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 goodlyman] 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).

andhis mother bare him after Absalom The Hebrew has -and she bare him &c.," the italics his motherbeing 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 (2 Samuel 3:3) was Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. It is better to render and he was born, thus avoiding any ambiguity.