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1 KINGS CHAPTER 1
Abishag cherisheth David in his extreme age, 1Ki_1:1-4. Adonijah usurpeth the kingdom, 1Ki_1:5-10. By the counsel of Nathan to Bath-sheba, and their petition to David, he reneweth his oath of making Solomon king after him, 1Ki_1:11-31. He, by David's appointment, is anointed king; the people triumph, 1Ki_1:32-40. Adonijah hearing this, his guests flee, and himself fleeth to the horns of the altar; is pardoned by Solomon, and sent to his own house, 1Ki_1:41-53.
Stricken in years; Being in the end of his seventieth year. He gat no heat; which is not strange in a person not only of so great an age, but also who had been exercised with so many hardships in war, and with such tormenting cares, and fears, and sorrows, for his own sins, (as divers of his Psalms witness,) and for the sins and miseries of his children and people. See Pro_17:22. Besides, this might be from the nature of his disease, or bodily distemper.