41And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
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For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, …
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. …
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. …
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-53)We have here, I. The tidings of Solomon’s inauguration brought to Adonijah and his party, in the midst of their jollity: They had made an end of eating , and, it should seem, it was a great while before they made an end, for all the affair of Solomon’s anointing was ordered and finished while they were at dinner, glutting themselves. Thus those who serve not our Lord Christ , but oppose him, are c…
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