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1 Kings 1:6

in 1 Kings 1

(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

KJV

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

This verse in 1 Kings 1

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Had not displeased him - i. e. “His father had never checked or thwarted him all his life.” A very goodly man - Here, too, Adonijah resembled Absalom 2Sa 14:25. The Jews, like the other nations of antiquity, regarded the physical qualities of rulers as of great importance, and wished their kings to be remarkable for strength, stature, and beauty 1Sa 9:2. Adonijah’s personal advantages no doubt helped to draw the people to him. His mother ... - i. e. Haggith bare Adonijah after Maacah bare Absalom 2Sa 3:3-

This site's exposition

I will be king

on 1 Kings 1:5-6

Adonijah “began to exalt himself”, and the narrator gives the cause: “His father had never once reprimanded him”. His “chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him” repeat Absalom's display at 2 Samuel 15:1. Verse 6 adds he was “born next after Absalom”, next in the pattern.

This site's exposition

Adonijah was also very handsome

Matthew Henry observed that the verse speaks of David never crossing his son. He judged that Adonijah had often grieved his father, who lamented it before God in private. Albert Barnes adds that Israel, like its neighbours, prized a king's stature and looks, as with Saul at 1 Samuel 9:2.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Displeased him - This is noted as David's great error, and the occasion of Adonijah's presumption. Saying - He neither restrained him from, nor reproved him for his miscarriages: which David well knew was a great sin. Goodly man - This was a second ground of his confidence, because his great comeliness made him amiable in the peoples eyes.
And his father had not displeased him at any time,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He had not displeased him at any time. It is not said that he never displeased his father; it is probably that he had done so frequently, and his father was secretly troubled at his misconduct and lamented it before God.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • עֲצָב֨וֹhe had rebuked him

    atzavoH6087 →

  • אָבִ֤יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • מִיָּמָיו֙from days his

    miyamavH3117 →2304 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • מַדּ֖וּעַwhy?

    madua'H4069 →72 times

  • כָּ֣כָהthus

    kakhahH3602 →37 times

  • עָשִׂ֑יתָhave you done

    ʾasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • וְגַם־and also

    vegam-H1571 →769 times

  • ה֤וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • טֽוֹב־[was] good of

    tov-H2896 →538 times

  • תֹּ֙אַר֙appearance

    toarH8389 →

  • מְאֹ֔דvery

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • וְאֹת֥וֹand <obj.> him

    veotoH853 →10935 times

  • יָלְדָ֖הsomeone bore

    yaldahH3205 →496 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֥יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃Absalom

    ʾavshalomH53 →110 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 29:15

    A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 10:1

      The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

    • Proverbs 17:25

      A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

    • Proverbs 29:17

      Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.

    • Proverbs 22:15

      Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

    • Proverbs 13:24

      He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 3:13

    I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 19:18

      Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

    • 1 Samuel 2:12

      Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

    • Matthew 10:37

      Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.