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Hey, friends, welcome back, First Kings chapter one today, and we're talking about the good,

the bad, and the ugly. And it doesn't take us long in our study to get to the bad and the

ugly because in First Kings chapter one, we have an aging David. David is old and he's cold. Sounds like me. Old and cold. And

what's happening in this time of decay is there are opportunists that are trying to take

advantage of what they perceive to be a weakened situation.

And it's just, it's full of drama.

If you don't think that there's drama in the Bible, you just haven't read it.

So look at First King chapter one and verse five, where the Bible says,

Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith.

And so many times in the Bible, you'll see a king named by his mother. And there's a couple reasons for that. Number one, because oftentimes

there were multiple wives. So they were distinguished by which wife they were a son of. But another reason

is because the mother of the king had a position of great authority in those days, the queen

mother. So there's a reason why kings are called after their mother's names in situations. And

certainly that's one here. So Adnijah is a son of David. We already know that David has a

really checkered family history, much of it due to his own sin with Bashiba and how he covered that up.

And the consequence of his sin that Nathan had pronounced in Second King chapter 12 was that

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