Solomon.] Solomon had divers elder brethren living, besides Adoniah, when he was made King; and he was the eldest sonne of the four, by Bathshuah or Bathshebah, though he be recorded last, 2 Sam. XII. 24. 1 Chron. III. 5. and XIV. 4 2 Sam. V. 14. And Nathan was the second, from whom Christ came, Luke III. 31.