1 Kings 2

1 Kings 2:11

Fourty years] And so the years of his life, seventy, when he dies of age. For he was thirty when he began to reigne, 2 Sam. V. 4. And yet Jesse was above one hundred, when he begat him: See on Rahab, Josh. II. And we read not of any King of Judah, or Israel after David that attained to his age: Onely Vzziah, and Manasseh came very near it.

1 Kings 2:20

I will not say thee nay] Many Promises of God and Man, have their Provisoes, and are to be understood conditionally, as 1 Sam. II. 30. Ezek. XXXIII. 13. 1 Chron. XVII. 9. and chap. XXVIII. 9. 2 Chron. VI. 16. Psal. CXXXII. 12. 2 Chron. VII. 17,—22. As Gods manifold promises of Long Life, and Temporal Blessings, and Deliverances. And many the like. And so for Threatnings, and Dooms, Judg. X. 13. Jonah III. 4. See my Observations on that Text of Jonah.

1 Kings 2:35

Abiathar] Abiathar the fourth from Eli, of the race of Ithamar, the younger brother, was High Priest, till Solomon put Zadok in his roome, being indeed the right heir of the right line, of Eleazar, and Phineas, 1 Chron. VI. 3, &c. Num. XXV. 13.