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1 Raja-raja 2:23

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Falsehood;   Fratricide;   Government;   Homicide;   Intercession;   Oath;   Shunammite;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altars;   Kings;   Punishments;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Solomon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abner;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Court Systems;   Crimes and Punishments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishag;   Adonijah;   Bathsheba;   Oaths;   Reuben;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abishag ;   Adonijah ;   Shimei ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Talent;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bath'-Sheba,;   Concubine;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heir;   Oath;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abishag;   Adonijah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abishag;   Bilhah;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka bersumpahlah baginda raja Sulaiman demi Tuhan, titahnya: Demikianlah kiranya perbuatan Allah akan daku, dan dipertambahkannya pula, jikalau kata ini tiada dikatakan Adonia bersalah dengan nyawanya sendiri.

Contextual Overview

12 Then sate Solomon vpon the seate of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was stablished mightyly. 13 And Adonia the sonne of Haggith came to Bethsabe the mother of Solomon, and she sayde: Comest thou peaceably? And he sayde, peaceably. 14 He sayde moreouer: I haue somwhat to say vnto thee. She sayd: Say on. 15 And he sayd: Thou knowest that the kingdome was myne, & that all Israel set their faces on me, that I shoulde raigne: howbeit, the kingdome is turned away, and geuen to my brother: for it is appoynted him of the Lorde. 16 And nowe I aske a petition of thee, deny me not. And she sayde vnto him: Say on. 17 And he said: Speake I pray thee, vnto Solomo the king (for he wil not say thee nay) that he geue me Abisag the Sunamite to wyfe. 18 And Bethsabe sayd: Wel, I wil speake for thee vnto the king. 19 Bethsabe therfore went vnto king Solomon, to speake vnto him for Adonia: And the king rose vp to meete her, and bowed him selfe vnto her, and sate hym downe on his seate, & there was a seate set for the kinges mother, & she sate on his right syde. 20 Then she sayd: I desire a litle petition of thee, I pray thee say me not nay. And the king sayd vnto her: Aske on, my mother, for I wil not say thee nay. 21 She sayde: Let Abisag the Sunamite be geuen to Adonia thy brother to wyfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: 1 Kings 20:10, Ruth 1:17, 1 Samuel 14:44, 2 Samuel 3:9, 2 Samuel 3:35, 2 Samuel 19:13, 2 Kings 6:31

if Adonijah: We have already seen, that the whole harem of an eastern monarch was a part of the regal succession - see note on 2 Samuel 16:23, and it was treason for a subject to claim any wife or virgin who had once formed a part of it. Solomon evidently considered the request of Adonijah in this light; and was convinced that he was still aiming to seize the crown, to which he considered this as one step. But it is very doubtful, how far the plea either of policy or state necessity can justify Solomon in thus embruing his hands in his brother's blood, whatever might have been his treasonable intentions or conduct.

spoken: Psalms 64:8, Psalms 140:9, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 18:7, Ecclesiastes 10:12, Luke 19:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:38 - sinners 2 Samuel 12:10 - the sword Proverbs 12:13 - wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips Proverbs 18:19 - brother Proverbs 20:2 - sinneth Habakkuk 2:10 - sinned

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.
Genesis 29:14
To whom Laban sayde: Well, thou art my bone & my fleshe. And he abode with hym the space of a moneth.
Judges 9:2
Saye I pray you, in the eares of all the men of Sichem, whether is better for you, that all the sonnes of Ierobaal, (which are threescore and ten persons) raigne ouer you: either that one raigne ouer you? Remember that I am of your bone, and of your fleshe.
2 Samuel 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to Dauid vnto Hebron, and sayde thus: Beholde, we are thy bone, and thy fleshe.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not of my bone and of my fleshe? God do so to me and more also, if thou be not captayne of the hoast to me for euer in the roome of Ioab.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then King Solomon sware by the Lord,.... To prevent his mother pressing him to have her petition granted:

saying, God do so to me, and more also; lay such and such evils upon me, and more than I care to express:

if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life; to his own prejudice, and even to the loss of his life; in which Solomon suggests it would issue, being a fresh overt act of treason; he knew, from what Bathsheba said, that this was his petition, and that he had spoken of this to her, and put her upon making it for him; and who no doubt related to Solomon the whole of the conversation that passed between them, and to which he seems to have some respect in his answer.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against his own life - Adonijah had forfeited his life by his former conduct, and his pardon had been merely conditional 1 Kings 1:52.


 
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