Text: 1 Kings 1:7
OT Text Referred to: 2 Samuel 3:4
Subject: Adonijah's supporters and his Hebron lineage
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 1:7, Adonijah confers with Joab and Abiathar the priest, who support his claim to the throne. The reference back to 2 Samuel 3:4, where Adonijah is listed as the fourth son born in Hebron, explains why these older power brokers backed him — Joab had served David since the Hebron period and Abiathar since David's flight from Saul, making them natural allies of the eldest surviving prince from those early years. The text implicitly contrasts human political loyalty rooted in seniority with the divine choice of Solomon, who is conspicuously absent from the Hebron birth list altogether.