51<\/strong>. Let king Solomon swear unto me to day<\/em> ] The word translated to day<\/em> signifies rather ‘first of all,’ i.e. before I will venture to come away from my place of safety. The same word is found twice in the narrative of the sale of Esau’s birthright, Gen 25:31<\/span>; Gen 25:33<\/span>. When Esau has asked for pottage, Jacob says “Sell me first of all (A.V. this day) thy birthright” and afterwards “Swear to me first of all.”<\/p>\n He owns Solomon as his king, and himself as his servant and subject; and being sensible of his great guilt, and of the jealousy which kings have of their competitors, could not be satisfied without Solomons oath. <\/P> <\/p>\n And it was told Solomon<\/strong>,…. By some of his courtiers:<\/p>\n saying, behold, Adonijah feareth King Solomon<\/strong>; lest he should take away his life:<\/p>\n for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar<\/strong>; which was the last resort of the guilty when they despaired of mercy otherwise:<\/p>\n saying, let King Solomon swear unto me this day that he will not slay his servant with the sword<\/strong>; he owns Solomon to be king, and himself his subject and servant; this no doubt he did to conciliate his favour, nor did he think his life safe, unless Solomon promised with an oath, that he would not take it away.<\/p>\n When this was reported to Solomon, together with the prayer of Adonijah that the king would swear to him that he would not put him to death with the sword ( before , a particle used in an oath), he promised him conditional impunity: “If he shall be brave ( , vir probus<\/em>), none of his hair shall fall to the earth,” equivalent to not a hair of his head shall be injured (cf. 1Sa 14:45<\/span>); “but if evil be found in him,” i.e., if he render himself guilty of a fresh crime, “he shall die.” <\/p>\n (51) And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword. (52) And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. (53) So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Solomon begins his administration in mercy. Go to thine house, said he to Adonijah. But our Jesus’s whole administration is mercy. I have said, mercy shall be set up forever. Go and sin no more, is the language of Jesus to the poor, self condemned adulteress. Joh 8:11<\/span> .<\/p>\n 1Ki 1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.<\/p>\n Ver. 51. Hath caught hold on the horns.<\/strong> ] Hither fled malefactors, as to a place of security, Exo 21:14 though there was no law for it.<\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 21:14 – take him<\/p>\n And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword. 51. Let king Solomon swear unto me to day ] The word translated to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 1:51”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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