Usurpation

How Nave’s arranged it

• OF POLITICAL FUNCTIONS
• By Absalom2 Samuel 15:1–12
• By Adonijah1 Kings 1:5–9
• By Baasha1 Kings 15:271 Kings 15:28
• By Zimri1 Kings 16:91 Kings 16:10
• By Jehu2 Kings 9:11–37
• By Athaliah2 Kings 11:1–16
• By Shallum2 Kings 15:10
• IN RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
• By King Saul, in assuming priestly functions1 Samuel 13:8–14
• By King Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the priesthood1 Kings 2:261 Kings 2:27
• By King Uzziah, in assuming priestly offices2 Chronicles 26:16–21

The passages, in Bible order (19)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 47:13–26

   There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

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2. Exodus 1:9–22

   “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

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3. Numbers 16:3

   They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 16:32 voices

   “All are holy - A kingdom of priests, an holy nation, as they are called, Exod. xix, 6, a people separated to the service of God, and therefore no less fit to offer sacrifice and incense, than you are. Among them - By his tabernacle and cloud, the tokens of his gracious presence, and therefore ready to receive sacrifices from their own hands.

   “All the congregation are holy - Compare the marginal reference. Korah’s object was not to abolish the distinction between the Levites and the people, but to win priestly dignity for himself and his kinsmen Num 16:10. This ultimate design is masked for the present in order to win support from the Reubenites by putting forward claims to spiritual equality on behalf of every Israelite.

   Everything gathered on Numbers 16:3→

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4. 1 Samuel 13:8–14

   And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:8–142 voices

   “And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed,.... He tarried to the seventh day, but not to the end of it, or towards the close of it, as he should have done: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; so soon as Saul expected: and the people were scattered from him; many deserted him, the Philistines drawing nigh, and Samuel not coming, as Saul expected, and had given the people reason to expect.

   “He tarried seven days according to the set time - Samuel in the beginning had told Saul to wait seven days, and he would come to him, and show him what to do, 1Sa 10:8. What is here said cannot be understood of that appointment, but of a different one.

   Everything gathered on 1 Samuel 13:8–14→

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5. 2 Samuel 15:1–12

   Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 15:1–121 voice

   “And it came to pass ... - The working out of Nathan’s prophecy (marginal reference) is the clue to the course of the narrative. How long after Absalom’s return these events occurred we are not told.

   Everything gathered on 2 Samuel 15:1–12→

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6. 1 Kings 1:5–9

   At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:5–91 voice

   “The narrative concerning - Abishag, the Shunammite (see the margin reference “a”), is introduced as necessary for a proper understanding of Adonijah’s later history (see 1Ki 2:13-25.) But even as it stands, it heightens considerably the picture drawn of the poor king’s weak and helpless condition, of which Adonijah was not ashamed to take advantage for his own aggrandizement. Adonijah was born while David reigned at Hebron, and was therefore now between thirty-three and forty years of age. He was David’s fourth son, but had probably become the eldest by the death of his three older brothers.

   Everything gathered on 1 Kings 1:5–9→

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7. 1 Kings 2:26

   Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

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8. 1 Kings 2:27

   So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 2:271 voice

   “That he might fulfil the word of the L RD - We need not understand this as stating that the fulfillment of the old prophecy was Solomon’s motive, or even one of his motives. The reference is to the overruling providence of God, which thus brought about the fulfillment of the prophecy. (Compare Mat 1:22; Mat 2:15; Mat 27:35, etc.) The deposition of Abiathar involved the rejection of the house of Ithamar 1Ch 24:3, to which Eli belonged, and the reestablishment of the high priesthood in the line of Eleazar.

   Everything gathered on 1 Kings 2:27→

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9. 1 Kings 15:27

   Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 15:271 voice

   “Baasha ... of the house of Issachar - It is curious to find Issachar furnishing a king. Tola, its one very undistinguished Judge Jdg 10:1, on obtaining office had at once settled himself in the territory of Ephraim. The tribe was as little famous as any that could be named. The “ass crouching between two burthens” was a true symbol of the patient, plodding cultivators of the plain of Esdraelon Gen 49:14-

   Everything gathered on 1 Kings 15:27→

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10. 1 Kings 15:28

    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

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11. 1 Kings 16:9

    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 16:91 voice

    “The conspiracy of Zimri - Elah’s “servant” (i. e., “subject”) - was favored by his position, which probably gave him military authority in the city, by the absence of a great part of the people and of the officers who might have checked him, at Gibbethon 1Ki 16:15, and by the despicable character of Elah, who, instead of going up to the war, was continually reminding men of his low origin by conduct unworthy of royalty. Steward - The office was evidently one of considerable importance. In Solomon’s court it gave the rank of שׂר śar, prince.

    Everything gathered on 1 Kings 16:9→

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12. 1 Kings 16:10

    So in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri went in, struck Elah down, and killed him. And Zimri reigned in his place.

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13. 1 Kings 21:7–19

    But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 21:7–191 voice

    The meaning is, “Art thou king, and yet sufferest thyself to be thwarted in this way by a mere subject? I, the queen, the weak woman, will give thee the vineyard, if thou, the king, the strong man, wilt do nothing.”

    Everything gathered on 1 Kings 21:7–19→

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14. 2 Kings 9:11–37

    When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 9:11–371 voice

    This mad fellow - The captains, seeing his excited look, his strange action, and his extreme haste, call him (as soldiers would) “this wild fellow.”

    Everything gathered on 2 Kings 9:11–37→

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15. 2 Kings 11:1–16

    When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 11:1–162 voices

    “Athaliah exterminated all the royal children. In fact, after her son had been killed by Jehu, she had conceived an extremely perfidious and vicious scheme, saying to herself with anger, "I will reign just the same against the will of God by fighting God's promises, …

    “Athaliah, as wife of Joram and mother of Ahaziah, had guided both the internal and the external policy of the Jewish kingdom; she had procured the establishmeut of the worship of Baal in Judaea 2Ki 8:18, 2Ki 8:27, and had maintained a close alliance with the sister kingdom 2Ki 8:29; 2Ki 10:13. The revolution effected by Jehu touched her nearly.

    Everything gathered on 2 Kings 11:1–16→

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16. 2 Kings 15:10

    Then Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, struck him down and killed him in front of the people, and reigned in his place.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 15:102 voices

    “And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,.... A friend of his, as Josephus (q) calls him, encouraged by the dissatisfaction of the people to him: and smote him before the people, and slew him; in a public manner, the people consenting to it, and approving of it, not liking Zachariah to be their king: and reigned in his stead; though but a very short time. (q) Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 1.

    “Before the people - i. e. openly and publicly. The Septuagint turns the original of the above words into a proper name, Keblaam, and makes him the actual assassin, but without much ground.

    Everything gathered on 2 Kings 15:10→

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