1 Kings 2:10

1 Kings 2:10

8 “And see, you have with you ^aShimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But ^bhe came down to meet me at the Jordan, and ^cI swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

9 Now therefore, ^ado not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but ^bbring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”

Death of David

10 So ^aDavid rested with his fathers, and was buried in ^bthe City of David.

11 The period that David ^areigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

12 ^aThen Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was ^bfirmly established.

Solomon Executes Adonijah

13 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. So she said, ^a“Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably.”

14 Moreover he said, “I have something to say to you.” And she said, “Say it.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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So David slept with his fathers—about six months after the coronation of Solomon (compare II Samuel 5:5 with I Chronicles 29:27). The interval was spent in developing his ideas and plans for the future glory of the kingdom and providing for the permanent worship of God (see on I Chronicles 22:1, and following).

was buried in the city of David—Sepulchres were not allowed within the precincts of cities. Jerusalem, however, formed an exception; and yet, even there, the privilege was reserved chiefly for the royal family (Acts 2:29). Tradition says that the bones of David repose on Mount Zion, and the minaret of a small mosque points out the spot which tradition has fixed. His was a noble, a wondrous, and a humbling history. He was a good man, yet his life was deformed by various crimes of a very gross character. But there were many bright and noble traits in his character; he was an earnest lover of the divine law; his reign was signalized by many important services that contributed to the glory of God and the exaltation of His kingdom; and his name, as the sweet Psalmist of Israel, will be held in honor to the latest age of the Church.

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