1 Kings 1:5-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

Adonijah Plots to Become King

⁵Adonijah, son of Haggith,^[a] was very handsome. His mother gave birth to him after she had Absalom.^[b] Adonijah was boasting that he was king. So he got a chariot and horses and 50 men to run ahead of him. ⁶His father had never confronted him by asking why he was doing this. ⁷But Adonijah had discussed his actions with Joab (son of Zeruiah) and with the priest Abiathar, so they supported him.

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Footnotes

1:5 Adonijah’s mother was Haggith; his father was David. He was David’s oldest living son.
1:5 “very handsome … Absalom.” These words are the last part of verse 6 (in Hebrew). They have been placed at the beginning of verse 5 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.