the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 Kings 1:1
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old: David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years. 2 Samuel 5:4, 1 Chronicles 23:1, 1 Chronicles 29:27, 1 Chronicles 29:28, Psalms 90:10
and stricken in years: Heb. and entered into days, Genesis 18:11, Genesis 24:1, Joshua 23:1, Joshua 23:2, Luke 1:7
Reciprocal: Joshua 13:1 - Joshua Ecclesiastes 4:11 - General
Cross-References
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.
He saw the light, and he knew that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
And God seiy the liyt, that it was good, and he departide the liyt fro derknessis; and he clepide the liyt,
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God diuided the light from the darkenesse.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now King David was old, [and] stricken in years,.... Was seventy years of age; for he was thirty years of age when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, 2 Samuel 5:4; this was just the age of man, Psalms 90:10;
and they covered him with clothes; not wearing apparel, but bed clothes; he seems to have been bedridden and paralytic:
but he got no heat; by them; having no natural heat in him, clothes could not communicate any to him, only keep the cold from him, see Haggai 1:6; there are many persons at the age he was, that are lively, healthful, and robust, comparatively speaking at least; but David's strength was impaired, and his natural force abated by his many wars, fatigues by night and day in campaigns, and the many sorrows and afflictions he met with from his family and his friends, as well as enemies; which exhausted his natural moisture, weakened his nerves, and drank up his spirits, and brought upon him the infirmities of a decrepit old age very soon.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now - Rather, “and.” The conjunction has here, probably, the same sort of connecting force which it has at the opening of Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, etc., and implies that the historian regards his work as a continuation of a preceding history.
King David - The expression “king David,” instead of the simpler “David,” is characteristic of the writer of Kings. (See the introduction to the Book of Kings) The phrase is comparatively rare in Chronicles and Samuel.
Stricken in, years - David was perhaps now in his first year. He was thirty years old when he was made king in Hebron 2 Samuel 5:4; he reigned in Hebron seven years and six months 2Sa 2:11; 1 Chronicles 3:4; and he reigned thirty-three years at Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:5. The expression had here been used only of persons above eighty Genesis 18:11; Genesis 24:1; Joshua 13:1; Joshua 23:1 : but the Jews at this time were not long-lived. No Jewish monarch after David, excepting Solomon and Manasseh, exceeded sixty years.
Clothes - Probably “bed-clothes.” The king was evidently bed-ridden 1 Kings 1:47.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
-Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 2989.
-Year before the Incarnation, 1015.
-Year from the destruction of Troy, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 170.
-Year before the first Olympiad, 239.
-Year before the building of Rome, 262.
-Year of the Julian Period, 3699.
-Year of the Dionysian Period, 507.
-Cycle of the Sun, 3.
-Cycle of the Moon, 13.
-Year of Acastus, the second perpetual archon of the Athenians, 31.
-Pyritiades was king over the Assyrians about this time, according to Scaliger, Langius, and Strauchius. He was the thirty-seventh monarch, (including Belus,) according to Africanus, and the thirty-third according to Eusebius.
-Year of Alba Silvius, the sixth king of the Latins, 15.
-Year of David, king of the Hebrews, 40.
CHAPTER I
David, grown old, is, by the advice of his physicians,
cherished by Abishag the Shunummite, 1-4.
Adonijah conspires with Joab and Abiathar to seize on the
government, 5-10.
Nathan and Bathsheba communicate these tidings to the aged king,
11-27.
David immediately pronounces Solomon his successor, and causes
Zadok and Nathan to proclaim and anoint him king, 28-40.
Adonijah and his friends hear of it, are afraid, and flee away,
Adonijah laying hold on the horns of the altar, from which he
refuses to go till Solomon shall promise him his life; this he
does, and banishes him to his own house, 41-53.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse 1 Kings 1:1. Now King David was old — He was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in the seventieth year of his age, 2 Samuel 5:4, and 1 Kings 2:11; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death.
But he gat no heat. — Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but David had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially by family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than he was in years. Besides he seems to have laboured under some wasting maladies, to which there is frequent reference in the Psalms.
