Then (A)Adonijah the [a]son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will [b]be king”; and (B)he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. (And his father had not [c]rebuked him at any time by saying, “Why have you done so?” He was also very good-looking. (C)His mother had borne him after Absalom.)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:5 The fourth son
  2. 1 Kings 1:5 Lit. reign
  3. 1 Kings 1:6 Lit. pained

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