1 Kings 1:12

Adonijah Tries To Become King

¹¹ Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it? ¹² So now come, please let me give you counsel and save your life and the life of your son Solomon. ¹³ Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘Have you not, my lord, O king, sworn to your maidservant, saying, “Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

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Solomon

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

Judges 9:5

Then he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

2 Chronicles 21:4

Now when Jehoram had taken over the kingdom of his father and made himself secure, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and some of the rulers of Israel also.

2 Chronicles 22:10

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

Proverbs 11:14

Where there is no guidance the people fall,
But in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 15:22

Without consultation, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they succeed.

Proverbs 20:18

Prepare plans by consultation,
And make war by wise guidance.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

Jeremiah 38:15

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? Besides, if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”

Matthew 21:38

But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

Acts 27:31

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”