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FORTY YEARS - In all forty years and six months. See 2 Samuel 5:5, and
1 Chronicles 3:4. The Jewish writers almost universally omit the
fractions of a year....
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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...
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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...
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_seven years reigned he in Hebron_ According to 2 Samuel 5:5 the time
was seven years and six months. The Old Testament writers often in
this way omit pieces of a year, and speak only of the full year...
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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...
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_AND THE DAYS THAT DAVID REIGNED OVER ISRAEL WERE FORTY YEARS: SEVEN
YEARS REIGNED HE IN HEBRON, AND THIRTY AND THREE YEARS REIGNED HE IN
JERUSALEM._
The days that David reigned over Israel were fort...
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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...
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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...
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וְ הַ יָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר מָלַ֤ךְ
דָּוִד֙ עַל
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_Seven years. The odd six months are not mentioned, 2 Kings ii. 11.
(Haydock)_...
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(11) And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years:
seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned
he in Jerusalem.
If the Reader be curious to calculate, he will...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE DAYS THAT DAVID REIGNED OVER ISRAEL [WERE] FORTY YEARS,.... So
says Eupolemus s, an Heathen writer, which are thus reckoned:
SEVEN YEARS REIGNED HE IN HEBRON; the six months over are omitted,...
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_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...
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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...
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years, in round
numbers; SEVEN YEARS REIGNED HE IN HEBRON, AND THIRTY AND THREE YEARS
REIGNED HE IN JERUSALEM. Thus the believers, having finishe...
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THE DEATH OF DAVID...
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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...
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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...
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SEVEN YEARS; more precisely, seven years and six months, 2 SAMUEL 5:5;
but smaller sums are oft neglected in Scripture computations....
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1 Kings 2:11 period H3117 David H1732 reigned H4427 (H8804) Israel
H3478 forty H705 years H8141 seven H7651 years...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 2:11 David REIGNED OVER ISRAEL for FORTY
YEARS, and died in 970 B.C.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:26; 1 Chronicles 29:27; 2 Samuel 5:4...