1 Kings 1:11

Nathan found out what they were doing, so he went to Solomon’s mother Bathsheba and asked her, “Have you not heard that Haggith’s son Adonijah is declared himself to be the king? And King David does not know about it!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

In Context

10But he did not invite Nathan or Benaiah or the king’s most capable soldiers or his younger/half-brother Solomon.

12So if you want to save yourself and your son Solomon from being killed, allow me to tell you what you should do.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 3:4The next one was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith. The next one was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital.

2 Samuel 12:24Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba. Then he ◄slept/had sexual relations► with her, and she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. David named that son Solomon. Yahweh loved that little boy.

1 Kings 1:10But he did not invite Nathan or Benaiah or the king’s most capable soldiers or his younger/half-brother Solomon.

1 Chronicles 22:9But you will have a son who will be king of Israel after you die. He will be a man who is peaceful and quiet, not a man who kills others. And I will cause that there will be peace between him and his enemies who are in all the nearby lands. His name will be Solomon, which sounds like the word for peace. During the time that he is king, people in Israel will be peaceful and safe.

1 Chronicles 29:1Then King David said to all the people who had gathered there, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen to be the next king, is young and does not have much experience. This work of building the temple is great/important, because this glorious building will not be to honor people, but to honor Yahweh our God.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 1:6-11

Adonijah's Ambition. ( b. c. 1015.) 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 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. 7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him. 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of… Read the whole commentary →

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