1 Kings 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Shall sleep with his fathers, i.e. die as his fathers did. See Genesis 47:30. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders; we shall be punished with death as malefactors, as guilty of practicing against the right heir of the crown, and transferring the kingdom to Solomon, and covering our ambitious designs with a pretence of religion.

1 Kings 1:21

21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.e