Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Kings 2:10
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, in the city of Zion.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, in the city of Zion.
Verse 1 Kings 2:10. _DAVID SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS_] His life was a life of remarkable providences, of much piety, and of great public usefulness. In general he lived well, and it is most evident that...
3. DAVID'S CHARGE TO SOLOMON AND DAVID'S END CHAPTER 2:1-11 _ 1. David's charge (1 Kings 2:1)_ 2. David's end (1 Kings 2:10) We call attention again to 1 Chronicles 28 and 29 where we find the reco...
DEATH OF DAVID; SOLOMON ESTABLISHED ON HIS THRONE. The main source of this chapter is the same as that of 1, but interspersed are Deuteronomic additions (1 Kings 2:3 f., 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 2:27). T...
_in the city of David_ The place is defined (2 Samuel 5:7) as -the stronghold of Zion." We are told (_Aboth de-Rabbi Nathan_i. 35) that -no graves are made in Jerusalem, except the tombs of the house...
C. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS 2:5-11 TRANSLATION (5) And also as for you, you know that which Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, which he did to two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to...
_SO DAVID SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND WAS BURIED IN THE CITY OF DAVID._ So David slept with his fathers - about six months after the coronation of Solomon (cf. 2 Samuel 5:5 with 1 Chronicles 29:27)....
DAVID'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT The recital of David's last charge to Solomon and his death is followed by an account of the execution of Adonijah, Joab, and Shimei. 3, 4. Cp. Deuteronomy 17; 2 Samu...
THE CITY OF DAVID] i.e. the stronghold of Zion: see 2 Samuel 5:6. At this time Jerusalem probably occupied only the eastern of the two hills upon which the modern city stands. David's reign was more i...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 DAVID’S INSTRUCTIONS TO SOLOMON Solomon was now the king. But before David died, he gave some special instructions to Solomon. David t...
BURIED IN THE CITY OF DAVID — that is, evidently in Mount Sion. In Nehemiah 3:16 the “sepulchres of David” are noticed, and they are plainly alluded to in Ezekiel 43:7; Ezekiel 43:9. They became the r...
וַ יִּשְׁכַּ֥ב דָּוִ֖ד עִם ־אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַ יִּק
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
A FOOLISH AND FATAL PETITION 1 Kings 2:10 So David's troubled life came to a close, but he has never ceased to lead the praises of the saints. At the very beginning of his reign Solomon was confront...
In the last charge of David there was first a recognition of the sphere of Solomon's safety. In all probability his personal influence had been great with his son, but now he was going "the way of all...
David. Thus died this perfect model of princes, and this great saint, whose only fault, of consequence, was occasioned by Bethsabee: (2 Kings xi. 4.) and this served to display his repentance. (St. Ch...
(10) So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. Here we come at last to David's death and burial. Alas! what is the sum total of every man's history in the world, but that h...
The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. Before David's death the iniquity and ambition of a son whom he "had not displeased at any time "led to the solemn proclamation of Solomon, to whom G...
SO DAVID SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS,.... Died as his ancestors before him did; for, buried with them he was not; and therefore cannot be understood of his lying with them in the grave, but in the state of...
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. Ver. 10. _So David slept with his fathers._] When he had served out his time, Act 13:25 when he had done his work, God sent him t...
_So David slept with his fathers_ He died with the satisfaction of seeing his own son his successor, the wisest and the hopefulest prince of the whole earth, and with the assurance of God's peculiar f...
1 Dauid hauing giuen a charge to Solomon, 3 of religiousnesse, 5 of Ioab, 7 of Barzillai, 8 of Shimei, 10 dieth. 12 Solomon succeedeth. 13 Adoniiah, mouing Bath-sheba to sue vnto Solomon for Ab...
DAVID'S LAST WORDS TO SOLOMON (vs.1-9) As David was about to die, his words to Solomon have serious significance. Just as Paul (2 Timothy 4:1) and Peter (2 Peter 1:12) were concerned about the testim...
5-11 These dying counsels concerning Joab and Shimei, did not come from personal anger, but for the security of Solomon's throne, which was the murders he had committed, but would readily repeat them...
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS; SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 1:21", SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 31:16". IN THE CITY OF DAVID, i.e. in that part of Jerusalem which was called by his name, because he took it from the Je...
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1 Kings 2:1 I. In this passage we notice the calmness and quietude of spirit with which David looked forward to the termination of his earthly career. In order to place ourselves in the position which...
1 Kings 2:10 There is a rounded completeness about these words which is peculiarly applicable to the man of whom they were spoken. His day had been a long, an active, and a troubled one. He was the g...
CONTENTS: David's charge to Solomon, David's death. Execution of Adonijah. Abiathar removed. Execution of Shimei. CHARACTERS: God, David, Solomon, Bath-sheba, Adonijah, Abishag, Joab, Abiatha, Benaia...
1 Kings 2:5. _Thou knowest what Joab did to me._ David does not mention Absalom, but that was the deed that touched his heart; the blood of Abner and of Amasa still cried to heaven. 1 Kings 2:9. _But...
_So David slept with his fathers _ VIEWS OF LIFE AND DEATH The view which is presented in the Scripture of the death of saints is the exact opposite of that which is popular to-day. You nearly, with...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 2:10 DAVID SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. The metaphor of sleep hints at the expectation of awakening sometime in the future. “With his fathers” suggests that previous generations als...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 2:10. BURIED IN THE CITY OF DAVID—A tomb probably prepared by the king before he died, and afterwards marked with great veneration, even in the time of Christ...
EXPOSITION THE LAST WORDS AND DEATH OF DAVID.—The death of David, and of course the charge which preceded it, did not follow immediately (as the casual reader might be tempted to suppose) on the event...
So the days of David drew nigh when he was going to die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man (1 Kings 2:1-2); Now he...
1 Chronicles 11:7; 1 Chronicles 29:28; 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 11:43;...