1And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Absalom is no sooner restored to his place at court than he aims to be in the throne. He that was unhumbled under his troubles became insufferably proud when they were over; and he cannot be content with the honour of being the king’s son, and the prospect of being his successor, but he must be king now. His mother was a king’s daughter; on that perhaps he valued himself, and despised his father,…
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