Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Kings 2

1 Kings 2:1 ^! Dauid exhorteth Salmon, and giueth charge as concerning Joab, Barzillai, and Shumei.

1 Kings 2:2 ^a I am ready to dye, as all men must.

1 Kings 2:3 ^/ Or, do wisely.

1 Kings 2:3 ^b He sheweth how hard a thing it is to gouerne, and that none can do it wel, except he obey God.

1 Kings 2:4 ^/ Ebr. a man shal not be cut of to thee from of the throne.

1 Kings 2:4 ^c And without hypocrisie.

1 Kings 2:5 ^d He shed his blood in time of peace, as if there had bene warre.

1 Kings 2:5 ^e He put the bloody sworde into his sheathe.

1 Kings 2:7 ^f That is, they delt mercifully with me.

1 Kings 2:9 ^g Let him be punished with death.

1 Kings 2:10 ^! The death of Dauid.

1 Kings 2:13 ^h For she feared, lest he wolde worke treaon against the King.

1 Kings 2:15 ⁱ In signe of their fauour & consent.

1 Kings 2:16 ^/ Ebr. cause not my face to turn away.

1 Kings 2:17 ^! Adoniiah asketh Abishag to wife.

1 Kings 2:19 ^k In token of reuerence, and that others by his example might haue her in greatest honour.

1 Kings 2:22 ^l Meaning, that if he shullde haue granted Abishag, which was so deare to his father, he wolde afterwarde haue aspired to the kingdome.

1 Kings 2:25 ^/ Or, fel vpon him.

1 Kings 2:25 ^! He is slaine.

1 Kings 2:26 ^/ Or, possesssions.

1 Kings 2:26 ^/ Ebr. a man of death.

1 Kings 2:26 ^m When he fled before Absalom, {2 Sam. 15, 24}

1 Kings 2:28 ⁿ He toke Adoniiahs parte when he wolde haue vsurped the kingdome, {Chap. 1,7}.

1 Kings 2:29 ^o Thinking to be saued by the holines of the place.

1 Kings 2:31 ^p For it was lawful to take the wilful murtherer from the altar, {Exod. 31,14}

1 Kings 2:33 ^q Joab shalbe justely punished for the blood that he hathe cruelly shed.

1 Kings 2:35 ^! Zadok was placed in Abiathars roume.

1 Kings 2:35 ^r And so toke the office of the hie Priest from the house of Eli, & restored it to the house of Phinehas.

1 Kings 2:39 ^s Thus God appointeth the waies & meanes to bring his juste judgements vpon wicked.

1 Kings 2:40 ^t His couetous minde moued him rather to venture his life, then to lose his worldely profit, which he had by his seruants.

1 Kings 2:44 ^u For thogh the woldest denie, yet thine owne conscience wold accuse thee, for reuiling & doing wrong to my father, {2Sam. 16:5}.

1 Kings 2:46 ^x Because all his enemies were destroied.