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New Life Version

1 Kings 1:6

His father had never troubled him at any time by asking, "Why have you done this?" He was a very good-looking man also, and was born next after Absalom.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adonijah;   Citizens;   Civil Service;   Parents;   Usurpation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Home;   Indulgence, Parental;   Parental;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;   Judah, the Tribe of;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Adonijah;   David;   Joab;   Parents;   Solomon;   Zadok;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Solomon;   Zoheleth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Adonijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Wheel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Firstborn;   Israel;   Nathan;   Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Hag'gith;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adonijah;   Anger;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But his father had never once infuriated him by asking, “Why did you do that?” In addition, he was quite handsome and was born after Absalom.
Hebrew Names Version
His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Avshalom.
King James Version
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
English Standard Version
His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.
New Century Version
Now David had never interfered with Adonijah by questioning what he did. Born next after Absalom, Adonijah was a very handsome man.
New English Translation
(Now his father had never corrected him by saying, "Why do you do such things?" He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)
Amplified Bible
His father [David] had never rebuked him at any time by asking, "Why have you done this?" Adonijah was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.
New American Standard Bible
And his father had never rebuked him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" And he was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And his father would not displease him from his childehood, to say, Why hast thou done so? And hee was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him next after Absalom.
Legacy Standard Bible
But his father had never grieved him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" And he was also a very handsome man in form, and he was born after Absalom.
Complete Jewish Bible
(His father had never in his life confronted him by asking, "Why are you behaving this way?" Moreover, he was a very handsome man; he was born next after Avshalom.)
Darby Translation
And his father had not grieved him at any time in saying, Why doest thou so? and he was also a very comely man; and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
George Lamsa Translation
And his father had never rebuked him at any time by saying, Why have you done so? And he also was a very handsome man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.
Lexham English Bible
His father did not rebuke him at any time by saying, "Why did you do so?" Now he was also very handsome of appearance; she had borne him after Absalom.
Literal Translation
And his father had not troubled him all his days, saying, Why have you done so? And he also was very good of form, and one had borne him after Absalom.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And his father reproued hi not therfore, so moch as to saye: Wherfore doest thou so? And he was a man of a very fayre bewtye and he had begotten him nexte after Absalo.
American Standard Version
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
Bible in Basic English
Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And his father for his time would not displease him, to say why hast thou done so? And he was a very goodly man: and his mother bare him next after Absalom.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And his father had not grieved him all his life in saying: 'Why hast thou done so?' and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
King James Version (1611)
And his father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why hast thou done so? And hee also was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him after Absalom.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why hast thou done thus? and he was also very handsome in appearance, and his mother bore him after Abessalom.
English Revised Version
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
Berean Standard Bible
(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, "Why do you act this way?" Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nether his fadir repreuyde hym ony tyme, and seide, Whi `didist thou this? Forsothe also he was ful fair, the secounde child aftir Absolon; and his word was with Joab,
Young's Literal Translation
and his father hath not grieved him [all] his days, saying, `Wherefore thus hast thou done?' and he also [is] of a very good form, and [his mother] bare him after Absalom.
Update Bible Version
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
Webster's Bible Translation
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
World English Bible
His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
New King James Version
(And his father had not rebuked him at any time by saying, "Why have you done so?" He was also very good-looking. His mother had borne him after Absalom.)
New Living Translation
Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, "Why are you doing that?" Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.
New Revised Standard
His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now his father had not displeased him all his days, by saying - Why, thus, hast thou done? Moreover also, he, was of exceeding handsome appearance, and, him, did his mother bear, after Absolom.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.
Revised Standard Version
His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Ab'salom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" And he was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.

Contextual Overview

5 Now Haggith's son Adonijah honored himself, saying, "I will be king." So he made war-wagons and horsemen ready for himself, with fifty men to run in front of him. 6 His father had never troubled him at any time by asking, "Why have you done this?" He was a very good-looking man also, and was born next after Absalom. 7 He spoke with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the religious leader. And they followed Adonijah and helped him. 8 But Zadok the religious leader, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the man of God, Shimei, Rei, and David's strong men, were not with Adonijah. 9 Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and fat animals by the stone of Zoheleth, beside En-rogel. He asked all his brothers, the king's sons and all the king's men of Judah to come. 10 But he did not ask Nathan the man of God, Benaiah, the strong men or his brother Solomon to come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had not: 1 Samuel 3:13, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 23:13, Proverbs 23:14, Proverbs 29:15, Hebrews 12:5, Hebrews 12:6

at any time: Heb. from his days

very: 1 Samuel 9:2, 1 Samuel 10:23, 2 Samuel 14:25

bare him: 2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 3:4, 1 Chronicles 3:2

Reciprocal: Judges 18:7 - magistrate 1 Samuel 2:23 - Why 2 Chronicles 11:23 - dispersed Hebrews 12:7 - for what

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
Then God called the light day, and He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6
Then God said, "Let there be an open space between the waters. Let it divide waters from waters."
Genesis 1:7
God made the open space, and divided the waters under the open space from the waters above the open space. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
Then God called the open space Heaven. There was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let plants grow from the earth, plants that have seeds. Let fruit trees grow on the earth that bring their kind of fruit with their own seeds." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
There was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the open space of the heavens to divide day from night. Let them tell the days and years and times of the year.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters be full of living things. Let birds fly above the earth in the open space of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the waters in the seas. Let birds grow in number on the earth."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his father had not displeased him at any time,.... Always humoured him in everything, let him have his own way and will, and granted him what he desired, and never corrected him for his faults, or made him ashamed, as the Targum, by telling him of them, and chastising him for them; this was not to the credit of David, being guilty of the same sin with Eli; and on this Adonijah presumed much, that he would not contradict and countermand in this as he had not in other things before:

in saying, why hast thou done so? never so much as asked a reason of his conduct, so far was he from reproving him for it:

and he [also] was a very goodly [man]; of a comely countenance, tall and well proportioned, as his brother Absalom, and which was another thing on which he built his hopes of succeeding in his enterprise; for in those times, as in later times, and other nations, a comely aspect and personable appearance recommended a man to the choice of the people for a supreme magistrate, :-;

and [his mother] bare him after Absalom; not that the same woman bore him as did Absalom; for Absalom's mother was Maachah, this man's Haggith; but she bore him after Absalom's mother had bore him, so that he was next son; and now Amnon, Chileab, or Daniel, and Absalom, being all dead, he was the eldest son living, and upon this he founded his claim to the throne, and his hope of succeeding.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Had not displeased him - i. e. “His father had never checked or thwarted him all his life.”

A very goodly man - Here, too, Adonijah resembled Absalom 2 Samuel 14:25. The Jews, like the other nations of antiquity, regarded the physical qualities of rulers as of great importance, and wished their kings to be remarkable for strength, stature, and beauty 1 Samuel 9:2. Adonijah’s personal advantages no doubt helped to draw the people to him.

His mother ... - i. e. Haggith bare Adonijah after Maacah bare Absalom 2 Samuel 3:3-4. The words in italics are not in the original; hence, some, by a slight alteration, read “David begat him.”


 
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