If I Only Had the Reign

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom. And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him. But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called, not. Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?-1 Kings 1:5-11***When Samuel the priest, prophet and judge was elderly, and his sons Joel and Abiah (Vashni and Abijah) were wicked, and King Nahash and his fellow Ammonites were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel set a king to lead them. After Samuel prayed to the Lord God and proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites, the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, to reign as king over the Israelites in the Promised Land. Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. While Saul reigned, the Lord God told Samuel to anoint David, from the tribe of Judah, to reign as king. Sometime thereafter, David began to serve as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul, and killed Goliath the gigantic Philistine, and made a covenant with Saul's son Jonathan, and married Saul's daughter Michal, and escaped from home to avoid being killed by Saul's men. After Saul's self-inflicted  death on the battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed David, and 30-year-old David began to reign as king only over the tribe of Judah. Abner, Saul's cousin and army commander, set Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) as king over the other Israelite tribes. After Ish-bosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed David, and David became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. During David's reign, Absalom, the son born to David and Maacah, had himself proclaimed king, and David and those loyal to David immediately left Jerusalem. After Absalom was killed, David returned to Jerusalem. Sheba, from the tribe of Benjamin, started a revolt and was beheaded. David reigned as king without any more threats to the kingship until Adonijah, the son born to David and Haggith,  decided he wanted to reign. Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd son born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26 

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