Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
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Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
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Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
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Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.'
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 1:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 31:16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- 1 Kings 2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
- Genesis 15:15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
- 2 Samuel 7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Kings 2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 2:22-24 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And so put to the death as wicked transgressors.
And so put to the death as wicked transgressors.
Hebrew, sinners.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when…
1Ki 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
Ver. 21. Shall be counted offenders.] Heb., Sinners. Erimus Mamzeres - so Jerome senseth it, out of the Hebrew traditions - that is, we shall be accounted bastards and infamous. It is probable that Adonijah had spoken basely of Bathsheba as an adulteress, and of Solomon as illegitimate, and so not fit to be king. Or by sinners here understand rebels, and public enemies.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Shall sleep with his fathers, i.e. die as his…
Shall sleep with his fathers, i.e. die as his fathers did. See Gen 47:30.
I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders; we shall be punished with death as malefactors, as guilty of practicing against the right heir of the crown, and transferring the kingdom to Solomon, and covering our ambitious designs with a pretence of religion.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord…
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers,.... That is, shall die, and be buried in the sepulchre of his ancestors, where he shall lie till he awakes in the morning of the resurrection:
that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders; or "sinners" (g); not as if she would be reckoned an adulteress, and her son as illegitimate, as some think, and so be branded and treated as such; but as being traitors, making pretensions to the throne, she on the behalf of her son, and he for himself, when he had no right to it, being the younger son, and not declared successor by his father.
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(g) "peccatores", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Shall be counted offenders.] When Adonijah and…
Verse 21. Shall be counted offenders.] When Adonijah and his party shall find that I and my son have had this promise from thee by oath, he will slay us both.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Shall sleep - This euphemism for death, rare in…
Shall sleep - This euphemism for death, rare in the early Scriptures - being found only once in the Pentateuch (margin reference.), and once also in the historical books before Kings 2Sa 7:12 - becomes in Kings and Chronicles the ordinary mode of speech (see 1Ki 2:10; 1Ki 11:43, etc.; 2Ch 9:31; 2Ch 12:16, etc.). David uses the metaphor in one psalm Psa 13:3. In the later Scriptures it is, of course, common. (Jer 51:39; Dan 12:2; Mat 9:24; Joh 11:11; 1Co 11:30; 1Co 15:51; 1Th 4:14, etc.)
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Offenders. I, as guilty of adultery; and my son,…
Offenders. I, as guilty of adultery; and my son, as a mamzer; (Deuteronomy xxiii. 2.; Tirinus) or we shall be accounted pretenders, (Haydock) and condemned as guilty of high treason. (Calmet) --- Our hopes and expectations will be frustrated. (Vatable) (Estius) --- We shall be despised or punished. (Worthington)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I and my son . . . shall be…
I and my son . . . shall be counted offenders--that is, slain, according to the barbarous usage of the East towards all who are rivals to the throne.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. counted offenders] The Heb. word is literally ‘sinners.’…
21. counted offenders] The Heb. word is literally ‘sinners.’ Bath-sheba does not go so far as Nathan, and say that the lives of herself and her son are in peril, but leaves the king to think what the lot of those offenders would be whom Adonijah knew to have aspired to the throne.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) Shall sleep with his fathers.—Here this phrase, so…
(21) Shall sleep with his fathers.—Here this phrase, so constantly used in the record of the death of the kings, occurs in these books for the first time. (It is also found in the message of promise by Nathan. 2Sa_7:12, relating to the succession of the son who should build the Temple.) We find corresponding expressions in Gen_15:15; Deu_31:16. Without connecting with the use of this phrase anything like the fulness of meaning which in the New Testament attaches to “the sleep” of the departed servants of God (as known to be a “sleep in Jesus”), it seems not unreasonable to recognise in it, at least, a rudimentary belief in death as rest and not extinction. The addition, “with his fathers,” has probably a reference to “the tombs of the kings;” especially as we find that it is not adopted in the cases of Jehoram (2Ch_21:20) and Joash. (2Ch_24:25), who were not buried therein.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Otherwise there is no corresponding word in the Hebrews…
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 1Ki_2:10 with his fathers this phrase, so common in the books of Kings and Chronicles, only occurs "once in the Pentateuch (Deu_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 afj is "to miss the mark." Like aJmartanein, 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, Bahr, al. ) And when I rose in the morning while it was still dusk to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning i.e., in broad daylight; Vulg. clara luce behold this second "behold" marks a second discovery it was not my son which I did bear. And the other woman said, Nay, but the living is my son and the dead is thy son. And this said, No, but the dead is thy son and the living is my son. It is somewhat difficult to account for the pertinacious claim to the child, preferred even before the king by the pretended mother. The most probable explanation is, that having taken the child in the first instance on the spur of the moment, in order to avoid the reproach of having killed her offspring by her clumsiness and neglect, she found it difficult to draw back from her false position which indeed she could not do without owning herself both child stealer and liar and so she put on a bold face and maintained the imposture even before the monarch himself. That she did not really care for the child is evident from ver. 26. Thus they spake Heb. And they spake," i.e., affirmed and contradicted before the king.
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