Haggith

AI summary: Haggith matters because the cross references present her chiefly through Adonijah, whose ambition threatens Solomon's accession. As one of David's wives, she belongs to the expanding royal household, but her lasting significance comes from motherhood within the politics of succession. Her presence reminds the reader that the structure of David's family is also the structure of future conflict. Taken together, the material presents Haggith as a royal wife whose son becomes a major factor in the struggle over the throne.¹

Festive; the dancer, a wife of David and the mother of Adonijah (2 Sam. 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5, 11; 2:13; 1 Chr. 3:2), who, like Absalom, was famed for his beauty. ³