1 Kings 2:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

1 Kings 2:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:15
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-25)

Here is, I. Solomon’s accession to the throne, 1 Kgs. 2:12. He came to it much more easily and peaceably than David did, and much sooner saw his government established. It is happy for a kingdom when the end of one good reign is the beginning of another, as it was here. II. His just and necessary removal of Adonijah his rival, in order to the establishment of his throne. Adonijah had made some bol…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

13-18. Adonijah ... came to Bath-sheba--Her question to him betrays an apprehension which his recent conduct might well warrant; but his pious acknowledgment of the divine will seemed apparently to indicate so entire an acquiescence in the settlement of the succession [1Ki 2:15], that, in her womanly simplicity, she perceived not the deep cunning and evil design that was concealed under his reques…