Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Kings 1.

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I have previously said that David was not a good father, at least not for his oldest sons.  My basis for that is the account of how he dealt with Amnon after Amnon raped his half-sister, Tamar., but also what it says here.  Here it says that David never confronted Adonijah for misbehavior.  The biblical account tells us that Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah were spoiled.  So, when Adonijah saw that David’s health was failing, he thought that he could make himself the de facto king.  Abiathar and Joab went along with him in doing so.  I am going to make a guess here that David had refused to make an official pronouncement about which of his sons would be king after him and that Joab and Abiathar were afraid that there would be a civil war if David died without doing so.  I also think that the men among David’s advisors who refused to go along with him thought that he would make a bad king.  It appears to me that Adonijah intended to do something similar to what Absalom had done, except without the plan to kill David.  Adonijah intended to get himself made king in David’s place by acclamation of all Israel.  Then he would just set his father David aside, or perhaps rule as regent until David died of natural causes.

I always wonder if David had really promised Bathsheba that Solomon would be king after him, because nowhere before this is that mentioned.  However, the fact that Adonijah invited all of David’s other living sons to join his coronation feast tells us that there was at least a common understanding among David’s court that David intended Solomon to be his heir.   In any case, all that I have written so far brings me to my lesson from today’s passage.  We should not exalt ourselves, but rather let others do that.  We should not seek the positions of honor.  If we are worthy of honor, others will give us that honor.  I am reminded here of what Jesus said in Luke 14 where He tells us to sit in least honored seat so that the host may tell us to move to a more honored seat.  Because Solomon did not seek to me made king, his support after he was crowned was stronger than that of Adonijah.

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