1 Kings 2:25

Contextual Overview

¹²So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established. ¹² So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established. ¹²And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. ¹² And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. ¹² Then sate Solomon vpon the seate of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was stablished mightyly. ¹² And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established. ¹² Now Solomon was king. He sat on the throne of his father David and was in complete control of his kingdom. ¹² So Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was firmly established. ¹² Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly. ¹² Then sate Solomon vpon the throne of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was established greatly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he fell: 1 Kings 2:31, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:46, Judges 8:20, Judges 8:21, 1 Samuel 15:33, 2 Samuel 1:15, 2 Samuel 4:12

Reciprocal: Judges 15:12 - fall 2 Samuel 19:11 - sent 2 Samuel 23:5 - Although 1 Kings 2:29 - Go 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Adonijah 1 Chronicles 29:24 - all the sons Proverbs 17:11 - General Ecclesiastes 8:4 - the word Hebrews 12:7 - for what

Cross-References

Genesis 2:10
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

Genesis 2:10
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

Genesis 2:10
Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

Genesis 2:10
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

Genesis 2:10
And out of Eden there went foorth a flood to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heades.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed from Eden and watered the garden. The river then separated and became four smaller rivers.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

Genesis 2:10
And a ryuer yede out fro the place of likyng to moyste paradis, which ryuer is departid fro thennus in to foure heedis.

Genesis 2:10
And a riuer went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into foure heads.

Genesis 2:10
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,.... Orders to execute him, and proper persons to do it; perhaps some of the Cherethites and Pelethites under him, to assist at least in it:

and he fell upon him, that he died; Benaiah rushed in upon him with his men, and thrust his sword into him, and killed him; executions used to be done in those times and countries by great personages, as the instances of Gideon, Doeg, and others, show, and not by common executioners.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 2:25. Solomon sent - Benaiah - and he fell upon him that he died. — Benaiah seems to have been the public state executioner, and yet he was generalissimo of all the forces. See him employed in a similar work, 1 Kings 2:34; 1 Kings 2:46. I suppose him to have been such another general as Suwarrow, butcher-general of the Turks and Poles to the late Empress Catharine of Russia: like mistress, like man. But they have long since been called to an impartial tribunal.

That this was an act of cruelty towards Adonijah, needs no proof. He is suspected, condemned, and slain, without a hearing. Calmet vindicates all this by various assumptions, and lays down a doctrine that is calculated for the meridian of Fez or Morocco; hear him: Un prince, dans ses jugemens, ne peut pas toujours suivre les regles de la plus parfaite morale; la politique, et le bien de l'etat, obligent souvent a des choses opposees aux conseils de l'evangile; "A prince in his judgments cannot always follow the rules of the most perfect morality; policy and the good of the state often require things to be done which are contrary to the counsels of the Gospel." What a diabolic maxim is this! And is this indeed the way that French kings ruled and ministers decreed judgment? Then we need not wonder at a revolution in that state, nor of the scourge that desolated the land. O England! magnify God for your constitution, your constitutional king, and the laws according to which he reigns.