1 Kgs 1:1

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The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called The Third Book of the KINGS.

1Kgs 1:1 Abishag cherishes David in his extreme age.

1Kgs 1:5 Adonijah, David's darling, usurps the kingdom.

1Kgs 1:11 By the council of Nathan,

1Kgs 1:15 Bath-sheba moves the king,

1Kgs 1:22 and Nathan seconds her.

1Kgs 1:28 David renews his oath to Bath-sheba.

1Kgs 1:32 Solomon, by David's appointment, being anointed king by Zadok and Nathan, the people triumph.

1Kgs 1:41 Jonathan bringing the news, Adonijah's guests fly.

1Kgs 1:50 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.

2Sam 5:4; 1Chr 23:1; 1Chr 29:27; 1Chr 29:28; Ps 90:10

and stricken in years. Heb. and entered into days.

Gen 18:11; Gen 24:1; Josh 23:1; Josh 23:2; Luke 1:7