The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called
The Third Book of the KINGS.
1; Abishag cherishes David in his extreme age.
5; Adonijah, David's darling, usurps the kingdom.
11; By the council of Nathan,
15; Bath-sheba moves the king,
22; and Nathan seconds her.
28; David renews his oath to Bath-sheba.
32; Solomon, by David's appointment, being anointed king by
Zadok and Nathan, the people triumph.
41; Jonathan bringing the news, Adonijah's guests fly.
50; Adonijah, flying to the horns of the altar, upon his good
behaviour, is dismissed by Solomon.
* old.
David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was
thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and
died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned
here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his
death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been
exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family
afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in
years.
# 2Sa 5:4; 1Ch 23:1; 29:27,28; Ps 90:10|
* and stricken in years. Heb. and entered into days.
# Ge 18:11; 24:1; Jos 23:1,2; Lu 1:7|
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