1 Kings 2

Children must speak to parents respectively, and in decent language. "Ask on my mother," said King Solomon to his mother Bathsheba (1 Kings 2:20). Secondly, reverence in speaking of parents.

Genesis 49.33: So likewise Masters of families, they must set their houses in order by the like two duties: 1. By a due disposing of their temporal goods and possessions: and 2. by giving exhortation and charge unto their children and family, concerning the worship of GOD, and t…

So that when one received it, he that went before him ceased to be a Priest. And so it was, either the predecessors were taken off by death, or on any other just occasion as it was in the case of Abiathar, who was put from the Priests office by Solomon (1 Kings 2:27). Howbeit ou…

4. Sin is the cause of punishment, though God's will is the cause why they are passed by, they are not punished because not elected, but because not obedient, Therefore does a living man complain, but for his sins (Lamentations 3:39). 'Tis here as it was in that case; David gave…

There is a great difference between blood-shed in war, and time of peace. Joab was guilty of murder, because he shed the blood of war in peace (1 Kings 2:5). Had he killed Abner and Amasa in the war-time, before David had made peace with them, he had not been guilty of murder; b…

All which must be shut up with setting order for all things at their death, with especial exhortations and prayers for religion, for uprightness in their callings, for peace and order after them. [Isaiah 38:1. In those days Hezechiah was sick to death: Esaiah the son of Amos the…

This setting him at God's right hand is a token of special and highest favor. So kings whom they were most pleased with they did set at their right hands, as Solomon did his mother (1 Kings 2:19) and so Christ the church his queen (Psalm 45:9), and it was a favor which God never…

And this may be cleared by other instances. Solomon placed his mother when she came to him on his right hand; a token of exceeding honor; but he himself sat down on the throne of the kingdom (1 Kings 2:19). The Church is said to be at the right hand of Christ (Psalm 45:9), which…

And this I mention by the way, to prevent any difficulties about his Genealogie. For as in the very first instance of the Regal Succession in the house of David there was no respect had to the Primogeniture (1 Kings 2:22), so there was no necessity that the Messiah should spring…

And God so infinitely hates and detests it, that although the altar were a refuge for other offenders, yet he would not have a murderer sheltered there; but he was to be dragged from that inviolable sanctuary to execution, according to that law (Exodus 21:24): If a man come pres…

Eighthly, this appearing for the Saints, and joining with them in their affliction, shall be highly rewarded of God. When David was in his affliction, persecuted by Saul, Abiathar fled to him with the Ephod, and abode with him; Although self-respects might move him, Saul having…

My Father, says Isaac to Abraham, and Jacob to Isaac. My Mother, says Solomon to Bathsheba (1 Kings 2:20). I find also the title of Sir or Lord, used: a title of honor (1 Samuel 24:12; 2 Kings 5:13; Judges 18:19; 2 Kings 6:21; 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Timothy 5:1; Genesis 22:7; Gen…

The two servants of Shimei who ran from their master are rebuked for it by the Holy Ghost. Onesimus, who ran from his master, is sent back again by Saint Paul: and Hagar is sent back by an Angel (1 Kings 2:39; Philemon verse 12; Genesis 16:9). Objection. What if master and mistr…

Section 24. Thus God who himself began the writing of the Word with his own finger, Exodus 31:11; after he had spoken it Exodus 20; appointing or approving the writing of the rest that followed, Deuteronomy 31:12; Joshua 23:6; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 1 Chronicl…

As Ephraim was as a cake not turned, baked on the one side (Hosea 7:8), quite dough on the other. Or as it is said of Joab (1 Kings 2:28), he turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. Some miscarry in adversity, others in prosperity.

This is also evident in that history where Abiathar is read to have been deposed, and Zadok appointed in his place — a fact which the Spirit of God specifically records. For although Solomon removed Abiathar from the priestly office driven by necessity — namely, by Abiathar's ow…

If a man has love to present things, if that be not subdued and purged out of his heart, he will never be stable, never upright with God. It may be he may stand when put upon some little self-denial for Christ; he may endure some petty loss, or some tender assault; yes, but at l…

The sum of what is spoken, by way of [reconstructed: command], as to Abraham (Genesis 18:19) amounts to this, that he would advise and charge his posterity not to sin. So that of Samuel to Israel (1 Samuel 12:24-25), and that of David to Solomon (1 Kings 2:1-3) etc., indeed to a…

Nature itself startles at the approach of death; innocent nature shivers and recoils, when this king of terrors is ready to lay his cold icy hand upon us. This was Joab's desire: that valiant soldier, the Lord-General of Israel himself, in (1 Kings 2:28), being in cold blood und…

Answer. He was to believe neither of the two according to the event, for there are two sorts of threatenings, some pure and only threatenings, which reveal to us, what God may, in Law, do, but not what he has decreed and intended, actu secundo & quoad eventum, to do, and bring t…

First, in a moral sense, when the action and the end, are to be measured or considered in reference to a moral rule, or Law prescribed to the Agent, then the means are the deserving, or meritorious cause of the end: as if Adam, had continued in his innocence, and done all things…

Statuet oves ad dextram. O ineffabile gaudium in beatis glorificatis qui ad dextram Christi sistent; astituri ipsi ut subditi serenissimo suo principi, ut filii benignissimo suo patri, ut regale sacerdotium gratiosissimo suo pontifici; mater Solomonis fuit ad dextram regis in Th…

David, at the humble request of Shimei, (who had before cursed him) pardons his fault for the time, and swears to him that he should not die (2 Samuel 19:23). David made conscience of this oath, knowing himself to be bound thereby, and therefore till his death he kept it; only h…

The reason was, because being newly invested in the kingdom, his adversaries were strong, and himself weak, even by his own confession, and therefore not able at the first, to redress the injury done to him. But when he had once established himself, then he does not only begin (…

Thus, when Abraham saw the three Angels coming toward him, he ran to meet them from the tent door (Genesis 28:2). And king Solomon, when his mother Bathsheba came towards him, to speak to him for Adonijah, the text says, he rose up to meet her (1 Kings 2:19). The third, to bow t…

Are ecclesiastical persons exempted from due obedience to the magistrate? No (Romans 13:1; 1 Kings 2:26; Acts 25:9-11; 2 Peter 2:1, 10-11; Jude 8-11). Well then, do not the Papists err, who maintain, that the clergy (as they call them) and their goods are altogether free, by the…