1 Kings 1

Christ is not so prized, nor his ordinances so loved; a sad presage, grace is on the declining hand; you are in a deep consumption. A sign David was near his grave, when he covered him with clothes and he got no heat (1 Kings 1:1). So when a person is plied with hot clothes, I m…

First God cleanses us by sanctification, and then pours in the wine of glory. Solomon was first anointed with oil, and then he was king (1 Kings 1:39). First God anoints us with the holy oil of his Spirit, and then he sets the crown of happiness upon our head; pureness of heart,…

A child indulged and humored in wickedness, will be a thorn in the parent's eye. David coddled Adonijah (1 Kings 1:6). His father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why have you done so?

Faith is an assent with affiance. The soul does [illegible], it gets hold of Christ as Adonijah did of the horns of the altar (1 Kings 1:51). Faith casts itself upon the stream of Christ's blood, and says, if I perish, I perish; if we have but the Minimum quod sic, the least dra…

The third duty which we owe to him is thankfulness, for the endless care which he shows in the governing and preserving of us. When David waxed old, and had made Solomon his son king in his stead, all the people shouted and cried, "God save king Solomon, God save king Solomon,"…

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

It is said, Revelation 16:10 that "the fifth angel poured out his vial on the seat of the beast;" in the original, it is the throne of the beast; "and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain…

§. 16. Of husbands' ready yielding to their wives' humble suits. Again, it being a token of reverence in a wife humbly to make known her desire to her husband, he ought to show so much courtesy as readily to grant her desire: this courtesy the forenamed Ahasuerus afforded to Est…

Such a branch was Adonijah. It is apparent that in his childhood he was not well nurtured, for his father would not displease him from his childhood (1 Kings 1:6). The father's putting off this duty to the mother, and the mother's putting it off to the father, is a great cause o…

Saul's servants did a part of faithfulness to their master, when, he being vexed with an evil spirit, they inquired after means to ease him (1 Samuel 16:16). So did David's servants, when he being bedridden, they sought out one to cherish him (1 Kings 1:2). It was a point of fai…

Earthly kings when they perish, their favorites are counted offenders. (1 Kings 1:21) When my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. When other governors are set up, they and their children will be found offenders.

How should the hearts of wicked men tremble, which have violated the laws of Christ, and affronted his authority, when they consider how odious this is, how certainly Christ will see execution done upon them! When Adonijah and his guests heard of Solomon's sitting upon his thron…

Let men be probationers in our apprehensions, let them proceed in a fearful and painful way to make proof of the inward disposition of their hearts, by their outward practices in a constancy of a holy conversation. As Solomon said of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:52), Let him show himself…

Happiness is nothing but the quintessence of holiness; purity of heart is heaven begun in a man; holiness is called in Scripture the anointing of God (1 John 2:27). Solomon was first anointed with the holy oil, and then he was made king (1 Kings 1:39). The people of God are firs…

3. A Parent must give his children discipline, Proverbs 23. 13. Withhold not correction from the child, for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die: The rod beats out the dust and moth of sin; a child indulged and humoured in wickedness, will prove a burden instead of a b…

When Solomon's line did cease, his line came in his room, of whom the Virgin Mary descended; but I rather with Junius take him to be Nathan the Prophet, because there is a distinction made of his kindred. So the house of Levi, and the house of Shimei; some take him to be Simeon,…