KJV King James Version
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.
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1 Kings 1:6
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
WEB World English Bible
His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
ASV American Standard Version
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and his father hath not grieved him all his days, saying, ‘Wherefore thus hast thou done?’ and he also is of a very good form, and his mother bare him after Absalom.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 1
3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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.
7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].
8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which [belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:
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וְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotעֲצָב֨וֹH6087 · a.tsavto hurtאָבִ֤יוH1 · avfatherמִיָּמָיו֙H3117 · yomdayלֵאמֹ֔רH559 · a.marto sayמַדּ֖וּעַH4069 · mad.du.awhy?כָּ֣כָהH3602 · ka.khahthusעָשִׂ֑יתָH6213 · a.sahto make: doוְגַם־H1571 · gamalsoה֤וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itטֽוֹב־H2896 · tovpleasantתֹּ֙אַר֙H8389 · to.arappearanceמְאֹ֔דH3966 · me.odmuchוְאֹת֥וֹH853 · et[Obj.]יָלְדָ֖הH3205 · ya.ladto begetאַחֲרֵ֥יH310 · a.charafterאַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃H53 · a.vi.sha.lomAbsalom
Cross-references
2 Samuel 3:3-4And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;1 Samuel 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.Hebrews 12:5-6And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:Proverbs 22:15Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.Proverbs 23:13-14Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.1 Chronicles 3:2The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:2 Samuel 14:25But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.1 Samuel 10:23And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.1 Samuel 9:2And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.
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