1 Kings 1:10-53
Nathan <05416> [Nathan.]
Adonijah <0138> [Adonijah.]
Haggith's <02294> [Haggith.]
<03289> [let me.]
save <04422> [save.]
life ...... life <05315> [the life.]
Surely <03588> [Assuredly.]
sit <03427> [sit.]
arrive <0935> [I also.]
verify <04390> [confirm. Heb. fill up.]
very old <02204 03966> [very old.]
bowed down on <06915> [bowed.]
king ... king <04428> [And the.]
[What wouldest thou? Heb. What to thee?]
master <0113> [My lord.]
swore <07650> [thou swarest.]
It is not recorded when or upon what occasion David sware to Bathsheba that Solomon should succeed him; but it is supposed, with some degree of probability, that it took place after Absalom's rebellion; and as God himself had settled the succession, he might very properly give her this assurance.
Adonijah <0138> [Adonijah.]
aware <03045> [thou knowest.]
watching .... see <05869> [the eyes.]
<05046> [that thou.]
At this time the monarchy of Israel was unsettled; no man knew who was to succeed to the crown; and the minds of the people were as unsettled as the succession. It was neither hereditary nor elective: the king, as was anciently the case in most countries, named his successor; but in this instance, God had already assigned the throne to Solomon.
<07901> [sleep.]
son <01121> [that I.]
That is, when Adonijah is established on the throne, I and my son Solomon shall be put to death as state criminals. The history of the world demonstrates, that the lust of dominion has tempted men to commit the most enormous crimes. A father has destroyed his son, a son deposed a father, and a brother murdered a brother, in order to obtain a crown!
criminals <02400> [offenders. Heb. sinners.]
bowed <07812> [he bowed.]
said ........ announce <0559> [hast thou.]
king <04427> [reign.]
sacrificed <02076> [slain.]
king's .......................... live King Adonijah <02421 04428 0138> [God save king Adonijah. Heb. Let king Adonijah live.]
informing <03045> [and thou.]
Summon Bathsheba <07121 01339> [Call me.]
She appears to have gone out when Nathan entered; and he retired when she was readmitted.
King .......... before ... king <04428 06440> [into the king's presence. Heb. before the king.]
Lord <03068> [As the.]
rescued <06299> [hath.]
swore <07650> [Even as I sware.]
bowed <07812> [did reverence.]
master <0113> [Let my.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
Solomon <08010> [and cause.]
Maimonides informs us, that it was a capital offence for any one to ride on the king's mule, to sit on his throne, or to handle his sceptre, without permission; and as David ordered Solomon to ride on his own mule, etc., it was ample evidence that he had appointed him his successor.
put <07392> [to ride.]
mule <06506> [mine own mule. Heb. the mule which belongeth to me.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
blow ... trumpet <08628 07782> [blow ye.]
live <02421> [God.]
sits <03427> [sit.]
decreed <06680> [I have.]
So be it <0543> [Amen.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Lord <03068> [As the.]
greater <01431> [and make.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
<03774> [the Cherethites.]
King David's <01732 04428> [king David's.]
horn <07161> [an horn.]
tent <0168> [out.]
poured <04886> [anointed.]
people <05971> [all the people.]
flutes <02485> [pipes. or, flutes.]
celebrating <08056> [rejoiced.]
ground shake <01234 0776> [the earth rent.]
We use a similar expression in precisely the same sense: "They rent the air with their cries."
finished <03615> [as they.]
sound ............ noisy <06963> [Wherefore.]
city <07151> [the city.]
Jonathan <03129> [Jonathan.]
important <02428> [a valiant.]
No <061> [Verily.]
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Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
This was a fountain on the west of Jerusalem, (consequently in an opposite direction to En-rogel on the east, where Adonijah was proclaimed king,) of which there were two pools, an upper and a lower. (2Ch 32:30.) There is a large square cistern in the ravine west of the city, mentioned by Dr. Richardson as a little to the south of the Jaffa gate, which Dr. Pococke describes as a basin about 250 paces long and 100 broad. It is commonly called the pool of Bathsheba, but seems to be the lower pool of Gihon. "Nearly a mile to the N.N.W. is the pool of Gihon, which I suppose to be the upper pool. It is a very large basin, and, if I mistake not, is cut down about ten feet into the rock, there being a way down to it by steps. It was almost dry at that time, and seems designed to receive the rain waters which come from the hills about it. There is a canal from the pool to the city, which is uncovered part of the way, and, it is said, goes to the pool in the streets near the holy sepulchre. The fountain of Gihon arose either in the upper pool, or out of the high ground above it."--Travels, book i. ch. 6.
city <07151> [the city.]
sound <06963> [This is.]
congratulate <01288> [bless.]
God <0430> [God.]
leaned <07812> [bowed.]
praise <01288> [Blessed.]
placed <05414> [which.]
allowed <05869> [mine eyes.]
grabbed <02388> [caught.]
hair of his head <08185> [there shall.]
traitor <07451> [wickedness.]
King ............... bowed .... King <07812 04428> [bowed himself.]
1 Kings 1:2
found <01245> [Let there be sought. Heb. Let them seek. a young virgin.]
Heb. a damsel, a virgin. stand.
nurse ..... sleep <05532 07901> [cherish him. Heb. be a cherisher unto him. lie.]
warm <02552> [get heat.]
1 Kings 7:2
1 Kings 12:1-15
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
Shechem ........ Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
[Sichem.]
[Sychem.]
Jeroboam son ... Nebat <01121 05028 03379> [Jeroboam the son of Nebat.]
lighten <05923> [our yoke.]
consulted ....................... advise <03289> [consulted.]
show a willingness to help ............ servants <05650> [If thou wilt.]
said <02896 01696> [speak good.]
said .... Say ........ said ............... Say <0559 01696> [Thus shalt thou.]
harsher <06995 05666> [My little finger.]
A proverbial mode of expression: "My little finger is thicker than my father's thigh." As much as the thigh surpasses the little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and tax you shall be in proportion.
make ... even heavier <03254> [I will add.]
punished ........ punish <03256> [but I will chastise.]
Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's whip shall be a scorpion in my hand. His was chastisement, mine shall be punishment. Celsius and Hiller conjecture that {Æ’krabbim} denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a venomous nature, called by the Arabs scorpion thorns, from the exquisite pain which they inflict. But the Chaldee renders it {margenin,} and the Syriac {moragyai,} i.e., [maragnai,] scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic has {saut,} a scourge. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip, the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk into and tore the flesh.
whips that really sting your flesh <06137> [scorpions.]
Return <07725> [Come to me again.]
responded <06030> [answered.]
harshly <07186> [roughly. Heb. hardly.]
rejected <05800> [forsook.]
advice <06098> [the counsel.]
father ... heavy ............ father <01 03513> [My father made.]
turn of events <05438> [the cause.]
The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this doctrine. See an elucidation of a similar passage at 2 Sa 24:1. It says, {sibbah,} (from {savav,} to turn, change,) "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is consistent with all the preceding declarations. God stirred up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor humanity to govern them. God serves his own wise and righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men, and snares sinners in the work of their own hands. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him."
<06965> [that he might.]
1 Kings 12:25
built .................. built <01129> [built.]
Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
Penuel <06439> [Penuel.]
