| I Kings 1:13
| Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?
| Swear. This he did, either when he comforted her, after the death of her first-born; (2 Kings 12:24.) or rather, when Solomon had received so glorious a name, and was declared the heir by Nathan, 2 Kings 7:12., and 1 Paralipomenon 22:20., and 28:5. Adonias acknowledges that God had made choice of his brother, 3 Kings 2:15. (Calmet)
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