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# Adonijah son of Haggith
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Haggith was a wife of David. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# exalted himself
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"began to boast"
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# horsemen
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These are men who drive chariots pulled by horses.
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# fifty men to run ahead of him
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These men would go ahead of the chariots to clear the way for them and protect them.
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# had never troubled him, saying
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"had never troubled him. He had never even asked him" or "had never wanted to make him angry, so he never even asked him"
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# Why have you done this or that?
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This is a rhetorical question that a father would ask to discipline his son. AT: "You should know that what you have done is wrong." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# born next after Absalom
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David was the father or both Absalom and Adonijah, but they had different mothers. Absalom was born, then Adonijah. |