Adonijah] The eldest son then living, 2 Samuel 3:4. exalted himself] For David had declared Solomon to be designed king by God himself, 1 Chronicles 22:10. be king] Heb. reign. chariots, &c.] As Absalom had done before in a like case, 2 Samuel 15:1. These were evidences of an aspiring haughty minde.