1 Kings 1:49
All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.
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- Prov 28:1 : 1 Α wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.
- Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror. 5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
- Dan 5:4-6 : 4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. 5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing. 6 Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.
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50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.
51 Solomon was told,“Look, Adonijah fears you; see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying,‘May King Solomon solemnly promise me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
- 1 Kgs 1:40-445 verses74%
40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.
41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked,“Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?”
42 As he was still speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said,“Come in, for an important man like you must be bringing good news.”
43 Jonathan replied to Adonijah:“No! Our master King David has made Solomon king.
44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.
- 1 Kgs 1:24-263 verses73%
24 Nathan said,“My master, O king, did you announce,‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?
25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment they are having a feast in his presence, and they have declared,‘Long live King Adonijah!’
26 But he did not invite me– your servant– or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.
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5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, was promoting himself, boasting,“I will be king!” He managed to acquire chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard.
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13 Visit King David and say to him,‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise your servant,“Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’
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7 He collaborated with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported him.
8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors did not ally themselves with Adonijah.
9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
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53 King Solomon sent men to bring him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him,“Go home.”
- 1 Kgs 1:18-214 verses69%
18 But now, look, Adonijah has become king! But you, my master the king, are not even aware of it!
19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
20 Now, my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne.
21 If a decision is not made, when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, my son Solomon and I will be considered state criminals.”
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7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to your servants. For I swear by the LORD that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”
8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they all came before him.David Goes Back to JerusalemBut the Israelite soldiers had all fled to their own homes.
9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying,“The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.
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30 While they were still on their way, the following report reached David:“Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”
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24 When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.
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14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,“Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”
15 The king’s servants replied to the king,“We will do whatever our lord the king decides.”
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28 When the news reached Joab(for Joab had supported Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ran to the tent of the LORD and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.
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1 David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family learned about it, they went down there to him.
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5 As soon as they see, they are shocked; they are terrified, they quickly retreat.
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24 All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
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47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate our master King David, saying,‘May your God make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ Then the king leaned on the bed
48 and said this:‘The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’”
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23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the LORD,“May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!
24 Now, as certainly as the LORD lives(he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
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8 the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;
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9 The king replied to him,“Go in peace.” So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.
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19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.
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17 The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.
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1 David Goes to Nob(21:1) Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.(21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him,“Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”
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3 That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.
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34 In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west on a road beside the hill.
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12 So Saul feared David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.
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2 So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.
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53 A Woman Caught in Adultery[[And each one departed to his own house.
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27 But when Absalom pressed him, he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons along with him.
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10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.
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10 Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him,“What have you done?”(The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, because he had previously told them.)
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50 Then all the disciples left him and fled.