1 Kings 2:23

God.

20:10; Ru 1:17; 1Sa 14:44; 2Sa 3:9,35; 19:13; 2Ki 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 Sa 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.

Ps 64:8; 140:9; Pr 18:6,7; Ec 10:12; Lu 19:22

Psalms 5:6

destroy.

4:2; Re 21:8; 22:15

the bloody, etc. Heb. man of bloods and deceit.

26:8-10; 43:1; 55:23; Ge 34:14,25,26; 2Sa 16:8; 20:1; Isa 26:21

Ro 1:29

Psalms 64:8

tongue.

59:12; 140:9; Job 15:6; Pr 12:13; 18:7; Mt 21:41; Lu 19:22

all that.

31:11; 52:6; Nu 16:34; 1Sa 31:3-7; Na 3:7; Re 18:4,10

Proverbs 6:2

12:13; 18:7

Proverbs 15:2

tongue.

23,28; 12:23; 13:16; 16:23; 25:11,12; Ps 45:1; Ec 10:12,13; Isa 50:4

poureth. Heb. belcheth, or, bubbleth.

Ps 59:7

Proverbs 18:6-7

fools.

12:16; 13:10; 14:16; 16:27,28; 17:14; 20:3; 27:3

his.

14:3; 19:19; 22:24,25; 25:24; 29:9

his destruction.

10:8,14; 12:13; 13:3; Ec 10:11-14

his lips.

6:2; Jud 11:35; 1Sa 14:24-46; Mr 6:23-28; Ac 23:14-22

Daniel 6:24

and they brought.

De 19:18-20; Es 7:10; 9:25; Pr 11:8

them.This savage act accorded with the customs of those times; contrary to the Divine law which enacted that "the fathers should not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers."

their children.

De 24:16; Jos 7:24,25; 2Ki 14:6; Es 9:10

the lions.

3:22; Ps 54:5; Isa 38:13

Matthew 27:25

His.

21:44; 23:30-37; Nu 35:33; De 19:10,13; Jos 2:19; 2Sa 1:16; 3:28,29

1Ki 2:32; 2Ki 24:3,4; Ps 109:12-19; Eze 22:2-4; 24:7-9; Ac 5:28

Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:15,16; Heb 10:28-30

and.

Ex 20:5; Eze 18:14-32
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