Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Kings 1:21
Verse 1 Kings 1:21. Shall be counted offenders.] When Adonijah and his party shall find that I and my son have had this promise from thee by oath, he will slay us both.
Verse 1 Kings 1:21. Shall be counted offenders.] When Adonijah and his party shall find that I and my son have had this promise from thee by oath, he will slay us both.
SHALL SLEEP - This euphemism for death, rare in the early Scriptures - being found only once in the Pentateuch (margin reference.), and once also in the historical books before Kings 2 Samuel 7:12 - b...
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...
SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16. OFFENDERS. See App-44....
_counted offenders_ The Heb. word is literally -sinners." Bath-sheba does not go so far as Nathan, and say that the lives of herself and her son are in peril, but leaves the king to think what the lot...
B. BATHSHEBA'S IMPASSIONED PLEA 1:15-21 TRANSLATION (15) Then Bathsheba went unto the king to the chamber (now the king was very old and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king). (16) An...
_OTHERWISE IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN MY LORD THE KING SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS, THAT I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS._ I and my son ... shall be counted offenders - i:e., slain,...
1:21 sleep (c-13) 'Elsewhere 'lie.'...
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...
SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS. — Here this phrase, so constantly used in the record of the death of the kings, occurs in these books for the first time. (It is also found in the message of promise by N...
וְ הָיָ֕ה כִּ שְׁכַ֥ב אֲדֹנִֽי ־הַ מֶּ֖לֶךְ
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...
LEARNING THE KING'S WILL 1 Kings 1:15 The attempt of the usurper was met and defeated through Nathan's prompt action, and by the concerted appeal that he and Bathsheba made to the king, who seems to...
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...
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be (k) counted offenders. (k) And so put to death as wicked transgressors....
_Offenders. I, as guilty of adultery; and my son, as a mamzer; (Deuteronomy xxiii. 2.; Tirinus) or we shall be accounted pretenders, (Haydock) and condemned as guilty of high treason. (Calmet) --- Our...
(15) And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king. (16) And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. An...
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...
OTHERWISE IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN MY LORD THE KING SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS,.... That is, shall die, and be buried in the sepulchre of his ancestors, where he shall lie till he awakes in the m...
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. Ver. 21. _Shall be counted offenders._] Heb., Sinners. _Erim...
[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...
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, in the sleep awaiting the great day of resurrection, THAT I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS, treated...
ADONIJAH ATTEMPTS TO SEIZE THE KINGDOM...
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...
OFFENDERS: _ Heb._ sinners...
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 al...
SHALL SLEEP WITH HIS FATHERS, i.e. die as his fathers did. See GENESIS 47:30. I AND MY SON SOLOMON SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS; we shall be punished with death as malefactors, as guilty of practicing a...
1 Kings 1:21 happen H113 king H4428 rests H7901 (H8800) fathers H1 son H1121 Solomon H8010 offenders...
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...
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...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 1:20 Bathsheba is concerned that, if David does not appoint Solomon as the next king, she and her son will be treated as rivals for the throne (COUNTED OFFENDERS). Their lives...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 1:16. BOWED AND DID OBEISANCE—The latter word denoting the prostrate attitude customary in the East before kings. 1 Kings 1:21. SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS—Cou...
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 2:10; 1 Kings 2:15; 1 Kings 2:22; Deuteronomy 31:16;...