19Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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…
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