1 Kings 1:52 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

There shall not a hair of him fall. — Solomon’s pardon, though according to Oriental ideas, an act of extraordinary grace, was yet characteristically cautious and conditional, to be withdrawn accordingly on the first symptom of any renewal of Adonijah’s pretensions.

1 Kings 1:52

52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.