And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest [it] not:
Ver. 18. And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth.] His ambition hath turned off his obedience. Had his right to the kingdom been never so good, yet to step into the throne, while his father was yet living, without his privity and consent, was no better than treason.