Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 1:40

40 And all the people came up after him , and the people piped with pipes, and rejoyced with great joy , so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

Which flocked thither in abundance, some out of curiosity to see so Solemn an action; others to do their Duty; and others in expectation of some advantage by their chearful attendance upon the new King.

Partly, because this would certainly prevent Civil Wars, under which they had so lately and so sorely groaned, and which they had reason to fear from Adonijah's pretence to the Crown, and the assistance he might have from the great and famous Lord General Ioab, and from Abiathar the High-Priest, and from others who were or might easily be engaged for him, if David had not ended the controversie in his life-time: and partly, because of the singular wisdom and vertue for which Solomon was even then famous. See chap. 2. 5, 9.

An Hyperbolical expression: yet even solid Bodies have been oft broken and rent by great sounds.

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