1 Kings 2:10

Contextual Overview

¹When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. ¹ When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. ¹Then David's time to die drew near, so he commanded Solomon his son, saying, ¹ As David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, ¹ The dayes of Dauid drew nie that he should dye, & he charged Solomon his sonne, saying: ¹ And the days of David drew near for him to die. And he commanded his son Solomon, saying, ¹ The time came for David to die, so he gave these commands to Solomon, ¹ When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, ¹ Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, ¹ Now the dayes of Dauid drew nigh, that he should die, and he charged Solomon his sonne, saying;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So David: 1 Kings 1:21, 1 Chronicles 29:28, Acts 2:29, Acts 13:36

the city: 1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 11:43, 2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:7

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:21 - Hadad 1 Kings 14:20 - slept 1 Kings 22:40 - slept 1 Kings 22:50 - slept with his fathers 2 Kings 8:24 - slept 2 Kings 10:35 - Jehu slept 2 Kings 13:13 - slept 2 Kings 14:20 - he was buried 2 Kings 20:21 - slept 1 Chronicles 17:11 - go to be 2 Chronicles 9:31 - slept 2 Chronicles 14:1 - slept 2 Chronicles 24:16 - in the city 2 Chronicles 32:33 - slept Job 3:14 - kings 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - which are

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
[Yet] the fludde by his ryuers shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the tabernacles of the most hyghest.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God, the holy tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams bring happiness to God's city, to the holy city of God Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 the dead; he died according as the Jews say q on the day of Pentecost, and according to Bishop Usher r A. M. 2990, and before Christ 1014;

and was buried in the city of David; not at Bethlehem, in the sepulchre of Jesse, who was a private man; but being a king, in his own city, the hold of Zion he took from the Jebusite, and which afterwards was called by his name, 2 Samuel 5:7; and his sepulchre remained unto the times of the apostles, upwards of a thousand years, 2 Samuel 5:7- :.

q T. Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 78. 1. r Anuals, &c. p. 56.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 he died well; and as a king, a general, a poet, a father, and a friend, he has had few equals, and no superior, from his own time to the present day. But I shall reserve a more particular consideration of his character till I come to the book of Psalms, in which that character, with all its lights and shades, is exhibited by his own masterly hand. And it is from this composition alone that we can know David, and the maxims by which he was governed in public and private life.

Was buried in the city of David. — And Solomon, says Josephus, deposited immense treasures with him, in the grave, where they continued unmolested for thirteen hundred years, till Hyrcanus, the high priest, being besieged by Antiochus, opened the sepulchre, and took thence three thousand talents, part of which he gave to Antiochus, to raise the siege. It is added that, many years afterwards, Herod the Great ransacked this tomb and got considerable riches. Little credit is due to this account, though we know that was customary in ancient times to deposit with the more illustrious dead, gold, silver, and precious stones. That the tomb of David existed in the days of the apostles, we learn from Acts 2:29, where St. Peter, addressing the Jews, says, Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David; that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. St. Jerome speaks of it as existing in his time, and modern travellers pretend that it is still in existence. But both monks and Mohammedans have long united to impose on Christian pilgrims; and there is scarcely any dependence to be placed on any of their relations; absurdity and self-contradiction are their principal characteristics.