Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 1:6

6 And his father had not displeased him at any time , in saying, Why hast thou done so ? And he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom ▪

This is noted as David's great error, and the occasion of Adonijah's presumption.

He neither restrained him from, nor reproved him for, his miscarriages: which was a great sin against that plain Law, Levit. 19. 17. and severely punished in Eli, which David was not ignorant of, except Adonijah's errors were small or concealed from David.

This particle relates either, [illegible: 1+ letters]irst, To Absalom here following, who also was a goodly man. Or rather, Secondly, to what goes before, to signifie that this was a second ground of his confidence, because his great comeliness made him amiable in the peoples eyes, as his Fathers indulgence was the first.

i. e. Next after Absalom was born of his Mother: See 2 Sam. 3. 3, 4.

Marginal references: Heb. from his days.