Bible Question: why Solomon's brother say he is the king, but he know actualy is not him, why he do all this to let people know he is the king? |
Bible Answer: Hi lialia..., I'm sorry that no one has answered you directly, that is to say, very quickly. May I be the first then to welcome you to the forum.:) I would suppose that Adonijah as the older brother expected to be king. He thought that the people expected that he would be king. But with the killing (or sacrificing) of sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone (or Serpent Stone) for the feast that he prepared for his friends we see that it was on his own; he did not have the blessing of David or God. Adonijah later, 1Kings 2:15, agreed that the kingdom was Solomon's "from the Lord". And that was why he had been told by king Solomon to "Go to your house." (I wonder if that is why discipline in the home has those words, "Go to your room!") Another point that I would make from my study of these chapters, and I thank you for your question, is this. I see the blessing of God for Solomon's kingdom in 1Kings 1:36. "And Benaiah the son of Johoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! Thus may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say." What is Benaiah asking the Lord to say but verse 34, "Long live King Solomon." It was interesting to me to see that both prospective kings had this phrase said for them. The King James says for this phrase, "God save...";verses 25 and 39. And we know that God had chosen Solomon already and would agree, "Long live King Solomon." |
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