## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 1

###### Rashi on I Kings 1:1:1
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**וְלֹא יִחַם לוֹ.** אָמְרוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ: כָּל הַמְבַזֶּה בְּגָדִים, אֵינוֹ נֶהֶנָה מֵהֶם לַסוֹף, לְפִי שֶׁקָּרַע אֶת כְּנַף הַמְּעִיל לְשָׁאוּל. וּמִדְרַשׁ אַגָּדָה: אָמַר רַב שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר נַחֲמָנִי: כְּשֶׁרָאָה דָוִד אֶת הַמַּלְאָךְ עוֹמֵד בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם וְחַרְבּוֹ בְּיָדוֹ, נִצְטַנֵּן דָּמוֹ מִיִּרְאָתוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**But he was not warmed.** Our Rabbis said, “He who disgraces clothing will ultimately be deprived of their pleasures.”¹ [Dovid’s clothing did not warm him] because he tore off the corner of Shaul’s robe.² The Midrash [Aggadah states], Rabbi Shmuel son of Nachmeni said, that as Dovid saw the angel standing in Yerusholayim with his sword drawn in his hand, his blood became cold from fear.³

footnotes:
¹ Maseches Berachos 62b.
² See I Shmuel 24:5.
³ That terror of that experience remained with Dovid, and from then on he could never again find warmth.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:2:1
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**בְתוּלָה.** בְּתוּלֶיהָ מְחַמְּמִין אֶת בְּשָׂרָהּ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Virgin girl.** Her virginity warms her flesh.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:2:2
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**סֹכֶנֶת.** מְחַמֶּמֶת, וְכֵן: וּבוֹקֵעַ עֵצִים יִסָּכֶן בָּם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**A warmer.** “A warmer,”⁴ and similarly, “and he who chops wood will be warmed [יסכן] by them.”⁵

footnotes:
⁴ Koheles 10:9.
⁵ Alternatively, סכנת means that she should be “near” to him.—Targum


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:4:1
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**לֹא יְדָעָהּ.** שֶׁהַבְּתוּלָה יָפָה לְחַמֵּם מִן הַבְּעוּלָה. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ: מִשּׁוּם לֹא יַרְבֶּה לּוֹ נָשִׁים, וּכְבָר הָיוּ לוֹ שְׁמוֹנָה עָשָׂר.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Was not intimate with her.** Because a virgin is more suitable for [the purpose] of warming than a non-virgin.⁶ But our Rabbis said [he was not intimate with her] because “He shall not have too many wives,”⁷ and he already had eighteen.⁸

footnotes:
⁶ He therefore preferred that she remain a virgin.
⁷ Devarim 17:17. See Rashi there.
⁸ I.e., because Dovid already had eighteen wives, the maximum permitted for a king, he therefore did not marry her. See Maseches Sanhedrin 22a and Rashi there.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:5:1
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**מִתְנַשֵּׂא.** מִתְפָּאֵר.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Exalted himself.** He elevated himself.⁹

footnotes:
⁹ The literal meaning is, “lifted himself.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:5:2
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**וַחֲמִשִּׁים אִישׁ.** נְטוּלֵי טְחוֹל וַחֲקוּקֵי כַּפּוֹת רַגְלַיִם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And fifty men.** Whose spleens had been removed, and whose soles of their feet had been carved.¹⁰

footnotes:
¹⁰ See Maseches Sanhedrin 21b and Rashi there.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:6:1
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**וְלֹא עֲצָבוֹ.** לֹא הִכְעִיסוֹ, לִמֶּדְךָ שֶׁהַמּוֹנֵעַ תּוֹכָחָה מִבְּנוֹ, מְבִיאוֹ לִידֵי מִיתָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Had never angered him.** He did not anger him.¹¹ This [episode] teaches you that he who refrains from rebuking his child causes his death.¹²

footnotes:
¹¹ Throughout his life, Dovid had never gotten angry at Adoniyahu or punished him when he did something bad. Adoniyahu therefore incorrectly assumed that his father would not reprimand him for proclaiming himself king.
¹² See Mishlei 13:24.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:6:2
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**וְגַם הוּא טוֹב תֹּאַר.** כְּאַבְשָׁלוֹם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: וּכְאַבְשָׁלוֹם לֹא הָיָה אִישׁ יָפֶה, הִיא גָּרְמָה לָהֶם שֶׁנִּתְגָּאוּ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he was also very handsome.** [He was as handsome] as Avsholom,¹³ about whom it is written, “And as Avsholom there was no one as handsome.”¹⁴ This caused them to be proud.

footnotes:
¹³ “He too,” infers that there was another individual who was also very handsome.
¹⁴ II Shmuel 14:25.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:6:3
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**וְאֹתוֹ יָלְדָה.** אִמּוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**She gave birth to him.** [“She” refers to] his mother.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:6:4
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**אַחֲרֵי אַבְשָׁלוֹם.** כְּלוֹמַר גִּדְּלַתּוֹ אַחַר תַּרְבּוּת שֶׁגִּדְלָה אִמּוֹ שֶׁל אַבְשָׁלוֹם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**After Avsholom.** I.e., his mother reared him in the same spoiled manner that Avsholom’s mother reared him.¹⁵ Avsholom” because it implies that she bore both Adoniyahu and Avsholom, which is not true, for Avsholom’s mother was Ma’acha, and Adoniyahu’s mother was Chagis.

footnotes:
¹⁵ Rashi does not translate “after


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:7:1
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**עִם יוֹאָב בֶּן צְרוּיָה.** לְפִי שֶׁהָיָה יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁבְּלִבּוֹ שֶׁל דָּוִד עָלָיו, עַל שֶׁהָרַג אֶת אַבְנֵר וַעֲמָשָׂא וְאַבְשָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹפוֹ שֶׁיְּצַוֶּה אֶת בְּנוֹ הַמּוֹלֵךְ תַּחְתָּיו עָלָיו, לְפִיכָךְ הָיָה רוֹצֶה שֶׁיִּמְלֹךְ זֶה עַל יָדוֹ, וְיֶאֱהָבֶנּוּ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With Yoav ben Tseruyah.** Because he knew that Dovid bore a grudge against him for having killed Avner, Amasa, and Avsholom; and that he would eventually charge his son, who would reign in his place, to deal with him. He [Yoav] therefore wanted that this one [Adoniyahu] should reign through his assistance so that he would favor him.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:7:2
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**וְעִם אֶבְיָתָר הַכֹּהֵן.** שֶׁנִּסְתַּלֵּק מִן הַכְּהֻנָּה מִשֶּׁבָּרַח דָּוִד מִירוּשָׁלַיִם מִפְּנֵי אַבְשָׁלוֹם, שֶׁשָּׁאַל בָּאוּרִים וְתֻמִּים וְלֹא עָלְתָה לּוֹ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: וַיַּעַל אֶבְיָתָר, וְהָיָה מִבְּנֵי בָּנָיו שֶׁל עֵלִי, וְיָדַע שֶׁלֹּא יְשַׁמֵּשׁ בִּימֵי שְׁלֹמֹה, שֶׁהֲרֵי נֶאֱמַר לְעֵלִי: וַהֲקִימֹתִי לִי כֹּהֵן נֶאֱמָן וְהִתְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵי מְשִׁיחִי, וְהָיָה חָפֵץ שֶׁיַּעֲמֹד זֶה עַל יָדוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And with Evyosor the *kohein*.** He was dismissed from the priesthood at the time when Dovid escaped from Yerusholayim on account of Avsholom, when he [Evyosor] consulted the *Urim* and *Tumim* and was unsuccessful as it is stated, “And Evyosor went up.”¹⁶ He [Evyosor] was a descendant of Eili. And he knew that he would not serve in the days of Shlomo, for it was stated to Eili, “And I will appoint for Myself a faithful *kohein*... and he will serve before My anointed one...”¹⁷ He [Evyosor] wanted that this one [Adoniyah become king] through his assistance.¹⁸

footnotes:
¹⁶ II Shmuel 15:24.
¹⁷ I Shmuel 2:35.
¹⁸ So that Adoniyahu would listen to him when he became king and would restore him to his previous position of Kohein Gadol.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:8:1
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**וְנָתָן הַנָּבִיא.** שֶׁנִּבֵּא לְדָוִד שֶׁשְּׁלֹמֹה יִמְלֹךְ, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּדִבְרֵי הַיָּמִים: וּשְׁלֹמֹה יִהְיֶה שְׁמוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And Noson the prophet.** Who prophesied to Dovid that Shlomo would reign, as it is stated in Divrei Hayomim, “ his name will be Shlomo.”¹⁹

footnotes:
¹⁹ I Divrei Hayomim 22:9. The verse reads, “Behold a son will be born to you, he will be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies around, his name will be Shlomo.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:9:1
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**וּמְרִיא.** שׁוֹר שֶׁל פְּטָם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And fattened [oxen].** Oxen which are [fattened by being] fed forcefully.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:9:2
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**אֶבֶן הַזֹּחֶלֶת.** אֶבֶן גְּדוֹלָה, שֶׁהָיוּ הַבַּחוּרִים מְנַסִּין בָּהּ אֶת כֹּחָם לַהֲזִיזָהּ וּלְגָרְרָהּ, לְשׁוֹן מַיִם זוֹחֲלִין: זוֹחֲלֵי עָפָר. וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: אֶבֶן סְכוּתָא, שֶׁעוֹמְדִין עָלֶיהָ וְצוֹפִין לְמֵרָחוֹק.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The stone of Zocheles.** A huge stone used by the young men to test their strength by moving or dragging it. An expression similar to “moving [זוחלין]”²⁰ water, or, “those that creep [זוחלי] on the earth.”²¹ [Targum] Yonoson rendered [אבן זוחלת as] אבן סכותא [=a lookout stone], upon which people stand and look far into the distance.

footnotes:
²⁰ See Misnayoy Mikvaos 5:4,5.
²¹ Devarim 32:24.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:9:3
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**עֵין רֹגֵל.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: עֵין קַצְרָא, הוּא כּוֹבֵס, שֶׁמְּתַקֵּן בִּגְדֵי צֶמֶר בְּרַגְלָיו, עַל יְדֵי בְּעִיטָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Ein-Rogel.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered [עין רוגל as] עין קצרא, which is [a well]²² used by a clothes washer who would press the woolen clothes with his feet [=רגליו], by trampling [on them].

footnotes:
²² It was customary to anoint kings near a well or another source of running water to symbolize continuity and prolonged rule. See Rashi 1:33 below.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:10:1
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**וְאֶת שְׁלֹמֹה אָחִיו לֹא קָרָא.** שֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ הָיָה, שֶׁהִתְנַבֵּא עָלָיו הַנָּבִיא לִמְלֹךְ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And his brother Shlomo, he did not invite.** For he knew that the prophet had prophesied about him that he would reign.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:12:1
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**וּמַלְּטִי אֶת נַפְשֵׁךְ.** מִן הַמַּחֲלֹקֶת לְאַחַר מוֹת הַמֶּלֶךְ, שֶׁיִּרְצֶה בְּנֵךְ לִמְלֹךְ, כְּמָה שֶׁהִבְטִיחוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And you will save your life.** From the rivalry which will follow the death of the king, for your son will wish to reign, as the Holy One Blessed Is He, had promised him.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:21:1
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**חַטָּאִים.** חֲסֵרִים וּמְנוּעִין מִן הַגְּדֻלָּה, כְּמוֹ: אֶל הַשַּׂעֲרָה וְלֹא יַחֲטִא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Sinners.** [They will be] lacking²³ and restrained from any greatness,²⁴ as in, “[Sling a stone] at a hair, and not miss [יחטיא].”²⁵

footnotes:
²³ Literally, חטאים means “offenders.”
²⁴ Alternatively, חטאים means “banished.”—Targum, or will be treated as sinners.
²⁵ Shoftim 20:16.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:24:1
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**אַתָּה אָמַרְתָּ.** בִּתְמִיָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Did you say.** In the interrogative.²⁶

footnotes:
²⁶ I.e., “Did you say that Adoniyahu will reign after me?” Literally, “אמרת” means, “you said” [in the affirmative.]


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:25:1
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**כִּי יָרַד הַיּוֹם.** שֶׁהָעִיר הָיְתָה גְּבוֹהָה, וְאֶבֶן הַזּוֹחֶלֶת לְמַטָּה בַּגַּיְא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**For he has gone down this very day.** The city was situated on higher ground and the אבן הזוחלת was below in a valley.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:33:1
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**עַל הַפִּרְדָּה אֲשֶׁר לִי.** הוּא סִימָן לוֹ שֶׁיִּמְלֹךְ, וּתְחִלַּת הַגְּדֻלָּה, שֶׁאֵין הֶדְיוֹט רוֹכֵב עַל סוּסוֹ שֶׁל מֶלֶךְ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**On my personal mule.** This will be a sign that he will reign and the beginning of [his] greatness, because a commoner is forbidden to ride on the king’s horse.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:33:2
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**אֶל גִּחוֹן.** הוּא מַעְיַן הַשִּׁלּוֹחַ, מִכָּאן שֶׁאֵין מוֹשְׁחִין אֶת הַמְּלָכִים אֶלָּא עַל הַמַּעְיָן, סִימָן שֶׁתִּמָּשֵׁךְ מַלְכוּתוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To Gichon.** [Gichon] is the well of Shilo’ach. From this [episode is derived the custom] not to anoint the kings except at the well, to symbolize thereby that his kingship shall continue on and on.²⁷

footnotes:
²⁷ As the waters of a well do.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:34:1
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**וּמָשַׁח אֹתוֹ.** נוֹתֵן לוֹ שֶׁמֶן בֵּין רִיסֵי עֵינָיו, כְּמִין נֵזֶר.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he shall be anointed.** He places the oil between his eyelids in the form of a crown.²⁸

footnotes:
²⁸ See Maseches Horiyos 12a.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:36:1
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**אָמֵן.** שֶׁיִּחְיֶה שְׁלֹמֹה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Amein.** [Long] live Shlomo.²⁹

footnotes:
²⁹ “Amein” serves as an affirmation to this proclamation.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:37:1
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**מִכִּסֵּא אֲדֹנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ.** מִכָּאן שֶׁאֵין אָדָם מִתְקַנֵּא בִּבְנוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Than the throne of my lord Dovid Hamelech.** From this [we derive] that a father is not envious of his son.³⁰

footnotes:
³⁰ See Maseches Sanhedrin 105b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:38:1
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**וְהַכְּרֵתִי וְהַפְּלֵתִי.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: וְקַשָּׁתַיָּא וְקַלָּעַיָּא. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ: אוּרִים וְתֻמִּים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the archers and the sling shooters.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “the archers and the sling shooters.”³¹ But our Rabbis maintained [that it refers to] the *Urim* and *Tumim*.³²

footnotes:
³¹ Alternatively, כרתי ופלתי refers to the Sanhedrin.—Ralbag
³² The Urim and Tumim are called “כרתי ופלתי”; כרתי because their words are “cut” [כרת], i.e., they render irrevocable decisions and פלתי because they are “wondrous” [פלא] in revealing the future. See Maseches Berachos 4a.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:39:1
[Rashi on I Kings 1:39:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/1:39:1)

**אֶת קֶרֶן הַשֶּׁמֶן.** מִשֶּׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה שֶׁעָשָׂה משֶׁה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The horn of oil.** [Tzadok took] of the anointment oil compounded by Moshe.³³

footnotes:
³³ See Shemos 30, 31.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:39:2
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**מִן הָאֹהֶל.** שֶׁהָאָרוֹן נָתוּן בְּעִיר דָּוִד, וּצְלוֹחִית שֶׁל שֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה לִפְנֵי הָאָרוֹן (יומא נב ב).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**From the Tent.** Since the Holy Ark was in the City of Dovid [Yerusholayim], and the jug of oil of anointment was before the Ark. as we have learned in [Maseches] Yoma.³⁴

footnotes:
³⁴ 52b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:40:1
[Rashi on I Kings 1:40:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/1:40:1)

**בַּחֲלִלִים.** פלאוט"י בְּלַעַ"ז (חָלִיל).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The flutes.** *Flute* in O.F.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:40:2
[Rashi on I Kings 1:40:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/1:40:2)

**וַתִּבָּקַע הָאָרֶץ.** דִּבְּרוּ הַנְּבִיאִים בִּלְשׁוֹן הֲבַאי, כִּלְשׁוֹן בְּנֵי אָדָם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the earth [seemed to] split.** Prophets spoke in terms of exaggeration as [is common] among people.³⁵

footnotes:
³⁵ see Maseches Chulin 90b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:43:1
[Rashi on I Kings 1:43:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/1:43:1)

**אֲבָל אֲדֹנֵינוּ.** כְּלוֹמַר, עַכְשָׁיו אֵין בְּשׂוֹרָתִי טוֹבָה לְךָ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**But our lord.** I.e., “Now, my report is not of good [tidings] for you.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 1:50:1
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**בְּקַרְנוֹת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ.** שֶׁהָיָה בְּגִבְעוֹן, אָמַר: הֲרוּגֵי בֵּית דִּין נִקְבָּרִין בְּקִבְרֵי בֵּית דִּין, אָמוּת כָּאן, וְאֶקָּבֵר בְּקִבְרֵי אֲבוֹתַי (תנחומא מסעי יב).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Of the horns [of the corners] of the Altar.** Which was in Givon.³⁶ He said, “Those who are executed by Beis Din are buried in the graves of Beis Din. I will die here, and be buried in the graves of my forefathers.” Thus did Rabbi Tanchuma expound.

footnotes:
³⁶ Alternatively, he grabbed on to the corners of the altar that was in Yerushalayim.—Radak. In those days it was permissible to build an altar and bring certain sacrifices outside of the Mishkan.