Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 1:18
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest [it] not:
18. Adonijah reigneth ] i.e. Is being set up for king, and will be accepted, unless some word from David go forth to prevent it. With the commander-in-chief, and the highpriest Abiathar on his side Adonijah’s following might well seem powerful.
and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not ] The Hebrew words for thou and now vary only in one letter, and in sound are very much alike. Hence it has come to pass that in this verse and 1Ki 1:20 there is a confusion; and here in some copies thou is put instead of now: ‘and thou, my lord knowest it not.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This she adds, partly lest she should seem to accuse the king of inconstancy and perfidiousness; and partly to aggravate Adonijahs crime, from that gross neglect and contempt of the king which did accompany it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth,…. Has set up himself as king, and is by some saluted as such; but lest it should be thought by David that she suggested by this that he was guilty of the breach of his oath, or on any account to be blamed, she adds:
and now my lord, O king, thou knowest [it] not; which as it acquitted him from all blame, so it made the sin of Adonijah the more heinous, that he should do this without consulting his father about it; and was not only neglect of him as a father, and an act of disrespect and disobedience to him as such, but even of high treason, to assume the throne in his father’s lifetime, without his consent.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Ki 1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest [it] not:
Ver. 18. And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth. ] His ambition hath turned off his obedience. Had his right to the kingdom been never so good, yet to step into the throne, while his father was yet living, without his privity and consent, was no better than treason.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
now. A special reading (Sevir, App-34), with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “thou”. But the Massorah (App-30) says the scribes were misled in reading ‘attah (thou) instead of ‘attah (now).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Adonijah: 1Ki 1:5, 1Ki 1:24, 2Sa 15:10
thou knowest: 1Ki 1:11, 1Ki 1:24, 1Ki 1:27, Act 3:17
Reciprocal: 1Ki 2:5 – Joab Neh 6:7 – a king
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest {i} [it] not:
(i) The king being worn with age, could not attend to the affairs of the realm, and also Adonijah had many who kept it from the king.