Living Water Community Church

we started to explore this great record of the history of the kingdom of Israel. It starts from the end of David’s reign. We come onto the scene with David as an old frail man. He is unable to keep warm. The servants of David sought a young woman to serve the king and try to keep him warm. Abishag the Shunammite was found and she attended to king David. Because of things which happen later in this book we believe she was given to him as a concubine or second level wife. While all of this was transpiring Adonijah David’s oldest living son or at least the oldest living in the area was making plans to establish himself as the next king. He exalted himself and prepared an entourage of chariots and horsemen and 50 men to run before him. He was a handsome fellow and the passage frames him as a young man who had never been disciplined. He had successfully allied himself with Joab the leader of armed forces of Israel and Abiathar one of the key priests of Israel. While these were key political alliances Adonijah was