1 Kings 2:25,1 Kings 2:34,1 Kings 2:46

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 2:13-25

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—1 Kings 2:13. Comest thou peaceably?—After recent events, there was reason to suspect his design. 1 Kings 2:15. The kingdom is turned about—He prudently thus evades the charge on Bathsheba of having herself been accessory to this issue. 1 Kings 2:16. Deny me not; lit., turn not away my face. 1 Kings 2:18. Well, I will speak for thee—She saw not the cunning of Adonijah and might have thought this gratification would appease his disappointment. 1 Kings 2:22. Ask... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-46

Chapter 2So the days of David drew nigh when he was going to die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man ( 1 Kings 2:1-2 );Now here's father to son, and it's typical fatherly advice. Show yourself a man, son. Be strong. Show yourself a man. David coming to the end of the road. Now it is interesting to me that David's later years were spent in a feeble, physical condition, a man who must have been in tremendous... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 2:1-46

1 Kings 2:5 . Thou knowest what Joab did to me. David does not mention Absalom, but that was the deed that touched his heart; the blood of Abner and of Amasa still cried to heaven. 1 Kings 2:9 . But his hoary head bring thou down to the grave with blood. Hebrews אל al; the conjunction should be read here disjunctively, as Proverbs 30:8. “Give me neither poverty nor riches.” Then the sense of David is, Neither pardon nor punish him; but if thou shalt find any fresh cause against him,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 2:25

1Ki 2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. Ver. 25. And he fell upon him that he died. ] This was another piece of the punishment of David’s two great sins: the small and short pleasure whereof, behold, what a train and tail of calamities it draweth after it! read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 2:25

he fell: 1 Kings 2:31, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:46, Judges 8:20, Judges 8:21, 1 Samuel 15:33, 2 Samuel 1:15, 2 Samuel 4:12 Reciprocal: Judges 15:12 - fall 2 Samuel 19:11 - sent 2 Samuel 23:5 - Although 1 Kings 2:29 - Go 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Adonijah 1 Chronicles 29:24 - all the sons Proverbs 17:11 - General Ecclesiastes 8:4 - the word Hebrews 12:7 - for what read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Kings 2:25

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.Benaiah — For the execution of justice was not then committed to obscure persons, as now it is; but to persons of great honour and authority. It is far from clear, that Solomon did right herein, or that Adonijah had any ill design in asking Abishag. read more