And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
Ver. 4. And the fourth, Adonijah.] This also was one of David's tres vomicae, tria carcinomata, imposthumated ulcers, as Augustus called his three untoward daughters.
And the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital.] By six wives he had but six sons. God was not pleased with his polygamy. Erasmus a telleth of one Combe, a woman of Eubaea, who brought her husband a hundred children: and of another, an English woman, who, being blind, and married to a poor cripple, was blessed with twelve lusty sons, no way deformed or defective. b
a Eras. Chil.
b De Instit. Matr.