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1 Kings 1:26

in 1 Kings 1

But me your servant he did not invite, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

KJV

But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

This verse in 1 Kings 1

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

This site's exposition

Adonijah shall reign after me

on 1 Kings 1:24-27

Nathan's report matches Bathsheba's in every detail and adds one line she did not use, that the guests are eating and drinking before Adonijah and crying God save king Adonijah, the same acclamation formula that will greet Solomon at Gihon within the hour. He frames his own exclusion, with Zadok's, Benaiah's and Solomon's, as a question rather than an accusation, asking whether this was done by David's own order. The question forces David to either own the coronation or disown it, and he answers in the next verse.

This site's exposition

But me your servant he did not invite

Nathan names Zadok and Benaiah, whom Bathsheba had left out, and John Gill reads this as the filling up of her words promised in verse 14. John Wesley draws the inference Nathan wants David to draw. Adonijah shut out the prophet who knew the king's mind, so the feast went ahead without the king's knowledge.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Discourses Against the Arians 2.3-4 · Written before 373.

proposed

Thus fathers often call their sons their servants, yet without denying the genuineness of their nature. In fact, they often affectionately call their own servants children, yet without losing sight of the fact they did purchase them originally. For they use the one appellation from their authority as fathers, but in the other they speak from affection. Thus Sara called Abraham lord, although she was not a servant but a wife.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

But me - Whom he knew to be acquainted with thy mind, and with the mind of God in this matter: and therefore his neglect of me herein gives me cause to suspect that this is done without thy privity.
But me, even me thy servant,.... Meaning himself, Nathan the prophet, who was David's servant, his seer, and counsellor: and Zadok the priest; for whom David had a great respect: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who was captain of his bodyguards; here Nathan observes more than Bathsheba had, and supplies what she had omitted, and so filled up her words, as in 1Ki 1:14; and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called; which showed his ill intention.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְלִ֣יand <to> me

    veli

  • אֲנִֽי־I

    ʾani-H589874 times

  • עַ֠בְדֶּךָservant your

    ʾavdekhaH5650799 times

  • וּלְצָדֹ֨קand <to> Zadok

    uletzadokH665953 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֜ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548750 times

  • וְלִבְנָיָ֧הוּand <to> Benaiah

    velivnayahuH114142 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • יְהוֹיָדָ֛עJehoiada

    yehoyada'H307751 times

  • וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֥הand <to> Solomon

    velishlomohH8010291 times

  • עַבְדְּךָ֖servant your

    ʾavdekhaH5650799 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • קָרָֽא׃he has invited

    kara'H7121733 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

    1 Kings 1:8

    But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 4:18

      Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

    • 2 Samuel 12:1–15

      Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 20:25

      Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

    • 2 Samuel 23:8–39

      These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 12:25

    and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 13:26

      Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all…

    • 2 Samuel 7:4

      But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

    • 1 Kings 1:11

      Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:10

    But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or his brother Solomon.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 12:24

      Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

Where this verse is studied

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About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Athanasius of Alexandria, Discourses Against the Arians 2.3-4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.