1 Kings 1:21 - Exposition

Otherwise [there is no corresponding word in the Hebrews] it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep [strictly, "lie down:" see on 1 Kings 2:10 ] with his fathers [this phrase, so common in the books of Kings and Chronicles, only occurs "once in the Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 31:16 ) and once in the historical books before Kings" (Rawlinson). It was evidently the product of an age when the nation was settled, and men had their family sepulchres] that I and my son Solomon shall be counted [Hebrews be ] offenders [Hebrews as marg; sinners. The primary meaning of חָטָא is "to miss the mark." Like ἁμαρτάνειν , it came to be used of all erring and transgression. Bathsheba and Solomon would be obnoxious to Adonijah, as representing a rival cause; possibly also as guilty of high treason (Clericus, Bähr, al. )