Abishag

How Nave’s arranged it

• Wife of David1 Kings 1:1–41 Kings 2:13–25

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Kings 1:1–4

   Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:1–42 voices

   “Old - Being in the end of his seventieth year. No heat - Which is not strange in a person 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.

   “There are twenty-two letters among the Hebrews, as is also witnessed by the language of the Syrians and Chaldeans, which is for the most part similar to the Hebrew; for these twenty-two elements also have the same sound, but different characters. The Samaritans still write the Pentateuch of Moses in the same number of letters, only they differ in shapes and points (or "endings" apicibus).

   Everything gathered on 1 Kings 1:1–4→

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2. 1 Kings 2:13–25

   Now Adonijah son of Haggith went to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she asked, “Do you come in peace?” “Yes, in peace,” he replied.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 2:13–252 voices

   “The right hand is the place of honor; and as it expressly said to have been assigned to "the king's mother," it is necessary to remark that, when a husband dies, his widow acquires a higher dignity and power, as a mother over her son, than she ever possessed before. Besides, the dignity of "king's mother" is a state office, to which certain revenues are attached.

   “And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon,....

   Everything gathered on 1 Kings 2:13–25→

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