25 " For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance , and has invited all the king's sons and the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest , and behold , they are eating and drinking before him; and they say , ' Long live King Adonijah !'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Kings 1:25
Commentary on 1 Kings 1:11-31
(Read 1 Kings 1:11-31)
Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give all diligence, not only that no man take our crown, Revelation 3:11, but that we save our lives, even the lives of our souls. David made a solemn declaration of his firm cleaving to his former resolution, that Solomon should be his successor. Even the recollection of the distresses from which the Lord redeemed him, increased his comfort, inspired his hopes, and animated him to his duty, under the decays of nature and the approach of death.