Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 1:5

5 ¶ Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself , saying, I will be king : and he prepared him charets, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him .

Upon notice of the desperateness of the Kings Disease, and the approach of his death.

See 2 Sam. 3. 4.

Entertained high thoughts and designs.

As the right of the Kingdom is mine, v. 6. so I will now take possession of it, lest Solomon attempt to deprive me of it.

As Absalom had done upon the like occasion, 2 Sam. 15. 1. such ill use did he make of that example, that he committed the same wickedness which he had done, and yet feared not the same disappointment and destruction which he brought upon himself.

Marginal references: Heb. reign.