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v. 1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep that

warm even when they put covers over him. Anderson may v. 2 So his servants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to attend the appropriately

king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king prove may keep warm." Ministries.

v. 3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found difficult

Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. credited

v. 4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, to The

but the king had no intimate relations with her. accurately to author's

v. 5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and the said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to best run ahead of him. attribute. lecture v. 6 (His father had never interfered with him by asking, "Why do you of behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after our ability. notes

Absalom.) Any v. 7 Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the use incorporate

priest, and they gave him their support. Quotations

v. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, of Shimei and Rei and David's special guard did not join Adonijah. material v. 9 Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves at the Stone of quoted, Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all particularly without the men of Judah who were royal officials,

v.10 but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard paraphrased proper

or his brother Solomon. reside v.11 Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard citation

that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king without our lord David's within

knowing it? and

v.12 Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life the is summarized

of your son Solomon. unintentional. realm v.13 Go in to King David and say to him, 'My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: "Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he of

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v.15 So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the lecture Shunammite was attending him. by Bible v.16 Bathsheba bowed low and knelt before the king. "What is it you want?" of notes sources,

the king asked. Teaching v.17 She said to him, "My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the to

Lord your God: 'Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on contain all

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v.18 But now Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not which know about it. references

v.19 He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, have and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the by Don been commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant. that

v.20 My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who Anderson may will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. appropriately v.21 Otherwise, as soon as my lord the king is laid to rest with his fathers, I prove and my son Solomon will be treated as criminals." Ministries. v.22 While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived. difficult v.23 And they told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." So he went before credited

the king and bowed with his face to the ground. to The v.24 Nathan said, "Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall accurately to author's

be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne? the v.25 Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened best calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the attribute. lecture army and Abiathar the priest. Right now they are eating and drinking with of him and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!' our ability. notes

v.26 But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Any Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he did not invite. use incorporate v.27 Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants Quotations know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" of v.28 Then King David said, "Call in Bathsheba." So she came into the king's material presence and stood before him. quoted, v.29 The king then took an oath: "As surely as the Lord lives, who has particularly without delivered me out of every trouble, v.30 I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the Lord, the God of paraphrased proper

Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne reside in my place." citation

v.31 Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling within

before the king, said, "May my lord King David live forever!" and

v.32 King David said, "Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and the is summarized

Benaiah son of Jehoiada." When they came before the king, unintentional. realm v.33 he said to them: "Take your lord's servants with you and set Solomon my son on my own mule and take him down to Gihon. of

v.34 There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king fair

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v.36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, "Amen! May the Lord, the lecture God of my lord the king, so declare it. by Bible v.37 As the Lord was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon to of notes sources,

make his throne even greater than the throne of my lord King David!" Teaching v.38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the to

Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and put Solomon on King David's contain all

mule and escorted him to Gihon. Resources of

v.39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed which Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, "Long references

live King Solomon!" have v.40 And all the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing by Don been greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound. that

v.41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were Anderson may finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, appropriately

"What's the meaning of all the noise in the city?" prove v.42 Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Ministries.

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v.43 "Not at all!" Jonathan answered. " Our lord King David has made to The

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v.44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, the Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have best put him on the king's mule, attribute. lecture v.45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at of Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds with it. our ability. notes

That's the noise you hear. Any v.46 Moreover, Solomon has taken his seat on the royal throne. use incorporate v.47 Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, Quotations saying, 'May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and of his throne greater than yours!' And the king bowed in worship on his bed material v.48 and said, 'Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has allowed my quoted, eyes to see a successor on my throne today.'" particularly without v.49 At this, all Adonijah's guests rose in alarm and dispersed. v.50 But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns of the paraphrased proper altar. reside v.51 Then Solomon was told, "Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is citation

clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, 'Let King Solomon swear to me within

today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.'" and

v.52 Solomon replied, "If he shows himself to be a worthy man, not a hair of the is summarized

his head will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die." unintentional. realm v.53 Then King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And Adonijah came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon of

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holstered two guns. Not seeing the man who shot him behind the bar, he Anderson may walked up to the new bartender, looked him squarely in the eye, and said appropriately very slowly and very deliberately, "I'm lookin' for the man who shot my paw." prove p. 23 Ministries.

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the Dear Barbara, best Lately I have had several fears that I may be going off my rocker. How attribute. lecture can I know if this is what is happening to me? of Fearful in Fayetteville our ability. notes

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David is now an old man. It is difficult to conceive of him as an old man. We accurately to author's

always think of David as a shepherd boy. It is hard to picture him as an old, the senile man, who needs nursing care. His son, Adonijah, takes advantage of best him in this condition. He attempts to put himself and the throne and make attribute. lecture himself king. Of course, that is not going to fit in with God's plan. A great of deal of intrigue goes on. Intrigue is one of the things that characterizes the our ability. notes

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lecture ". . .The story of Solomon is the story of one whose heart was perverted and by Bible

his will enervated by luxury and pride." . . . of notes sources,

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Solomon's grievous fall provides a striking instance of the insufficiency that

of the highest endowments to preserve man from the grossest folly and sin Anderson may (John 15:5). The apostasy of Israel's illustrious king was the more glaring, appropriately

contrasted with God's goodness in appearing to him twice, blessing him so prove greatly, and warning him so plainly. He came to learn as all transgressors Ministries.

do, that their way is hard (1 Kings 11:14, 21, 26). difficult

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attribute. lecture Solomon was very young when he came to the throne. His own word is that of he was "but a little child" (iii.7). Eusebius says he was twelve. Josephus says our ability. notes

he was fifteen. We may safely say he was not more than twenty. His early Any accession was precipitated by a conspiracy of Adonijah, David's eldest use incorporate

surviving son, who aspired to the throne. Adonijah apparently judged that he Quotations

could bring off his cou d' état on the threefold ground of David's enfeeblement of through old age, Solomon's disqualification through immaturity, and his own material eminent suitability as being a favourite son of David, and a very attractive quoted, person (i. 6). He was backed up by Joab, the head of the army, and Abiathar, particularly without head of the priesthood, both of whom presumably sought their own interests—Joab to retain his leadership as under David, and Abiathar to oust paraphrased proper his rival, Zadok. reside p. 97 citation within and the is summarized unintentional. realm of fair use. Copyright material It

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The section from 1:1 to 2:12 presents a synopsis of the events that lecture ended David's reign and secured the throne for Solomon. The account begins by Bible with the rather strange situation of the service of a Shunammite, moves of notes sources,

through Adonijah's attempted coup d' état and his request to marry the Teaching Shunammite, his death, and the Solomonic party's victory over the rivals. to

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the Andrés Segovia, the master guitarist, who brought the instrument into best classical respectability, continually exercised a dry wit, and lived long. attribute. lecture When he was 82, I attended a concert of his in San Francisco. The of audience simply would not let him stop, relishing encore after encore. our ability. notes

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The Donahueite world-view is of a linear life. When a certain number lecture of years have elapsed, it's over. Period. It's a pathetic picture, and one by Bible people seldom look at unless it is forced upon them--as it was with poignancy of notes sources,

and wit in City Slickers. While this movie may not rank among the great Teaching morality plays of all time (and some would find parts of the film offensive), it to

certainly drives the point home, along with the cattle. contain all

Comedian Billy Crystal plays the part of a bored baby boomer who Resources of

sells radio advertising time. On the day he visits his son's school to tell about which his work along with other fathers, he suddenly lets loose a deadpan references

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Value this time in your life, kids, because this is the time in your that

life when you still have your choices. It goes by so fast. Anderson may When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything and you appropriately

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David was about 70 years old and extremely feeble. The strenuous life lecture he had led, the exposures and hardships of his youth, the cares and anxieties by Bible of his reign, and the chastenings through which he passed on account of his of notes sources,

great sin, and much else was responsible for this enfeebled condition. It is but Teaching another illustration of that rigid law, What a man soweth that shall he reap. to

It was a premature decay with the complete loss of natural heat. contain all

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Esth. 2:1-18, but it appears that the officials made the choice. contain all

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Our affair is torrid; what shall I do? the I'll wait with intent an answer from you; best Please hurry it up, and I will abide. attribute. lecture But we so want to wed; I want a bride. of our ability. notes

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I parked my car alongside the curb, turned off the ignition, and sighed. the There was something sad about the visit I was about to make. Dear old Mr. best and Mrs. Darby, faithful members of our church through the years, were attribute. lecture confined to their home. The aging process and the frailties of life had finally of caught up with them. He was ninety-four years of age and she was ninety. our ability. notes

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than shells of their former selves. of I got out of the car and glanced around as I made my way up the steps material to the front door. Everything seemed to be aging right along with the couple quoted, who lived inside. The lawn, once manicured and immaculate, was brown and particularly without thirsty for water. The scattered patches of grass were dry and brittle. Only

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were filled with tired, withered stalks of what had once been. The old car in reside the driveway, idle and unused for weeks, was powdered all over with dust citation

and grime. Two rocking chairs on the front porch had been turned backwards within

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Mr. Darby . . . Mrs. Darby--it’s Bruce, the pastor of your church.” Resources of

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“Come on in, Pastor; the door’s not locked.” that

I hesitated, then stepped through the door, wondering again what in Anderson may the world I could say or do to minister to their spiritual and emotional needs. appropriately

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“Good to see you, Pastor,” Mr. Darby said as he slowly waved a difficult trembling hand at me from his recliner chair. “I’d get up to greet you but I’d credited

probably fall, and you’d have to try to pick me up. And I don’t think that’s in to The your job description,” he added with a chuckle. accurately to author's

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time. I had heard it--that special chuckle of friendship--at the close of a Any sermon when I knew better than anyone else that I had failed miserably in use incorporate my attempts to get my point across. That chuckle and a pat on the shoulder Quotations helped pick me up and kept me going on more occasions than anyone could of ever know. material Mrs. Darby, lying on a bed on the other side of the room, greeted me quoted, with a smile and a nod of the head. Her illness made speaking difficult, but particularly without the slight gestures and the kindness in her eyes expressed the warmth of friendship and welcome that I had felt so many times when I had visited with paraphrased proper them. The world needed more people like the Darbys. For that matter, I reside needed more people like them. citation

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Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; the Teaching fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; and the sixth, Ithream the son of to

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Pride is like growing a beard. It just keeps growing and needs to be lecture shaved daily. Every day, you and I need to get up and look at our degrees, by Bible

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and ugly heart. If it is satisfied with God, it is a godly heart. As Henry Teaching Skougal put it, "The worth and excellence of a soul is to be measured by the to 3 object of its desire." contain all

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DAVID WAS A REAL SLOW MOVER WHEN IT CAME TO DEALING Teaching WITH HIS KIDS. to

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The author threw more light on Adonijah by recording that he was a lecture spoiled, undisciplined young man who had apparently received much by Bible admiration for his good looks (he was . . . very handsome) more than for the of notes sources,

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never broke the will of his own children; a great man on the public rostrum; within

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stay out until 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning." And Dad would say, "Well, Resources of

maybe their parents don't care. But I care. Be in here at 10:00." which Now when I go back to Baltimore, guess where those guys are? Still references

hanging out on the corner until 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning. I can trace have where I am today back to a father and mother who had a hold on me, who by Don been disciplined me, who would not let me have my way all the time. I'm in love that

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death of your father's whole family. Stay with me; don't be afraid; the within

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