However, it is reasonable to conclude that since Adonijah’s older brothers Amnon and Absalom were already dead, as was probably David’s son Chileab, Adonijah thought that he had the right to the throne as the eldest of David’s remaining sons.
ولی ظاهراً اَدُونیّا پیش خود گمان می‌کرد که چون برادران بزرگش اَمْنُون و اَبْشالوم و احتمالاً کیلاب همگی جان سپرده‌اند او به عنوان پسر ارشدِ داود حق دارد صاحب تاج و تخت شود .‏