1 Chronicles 23:1-28:20 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-23

Here we have, I. The crown entailed, according to the divine appointment, 1 Chron. 23:1. David made Solomon king, not to reign with him, or reign under him, but only to reign after him. This he did, 1. When he was old and full of days. He was but seventy years old when he died, and yet he was full of days, satur dierum?satisfied with living in this world. When he found himself going off, he made provision for the welfare of the kingdom after his decease, and pleased himself with the hopeful... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1

So when David was old and full of days ,.... Perhaps was now in the last year of his age, about seventy years old, though before he was bedridden; see 1 Chronicles 28:2 , he made Solomon his son king over Israel ; declared him to be his successor; this was before the affair of Adonijah, for then he ordered him to be anointed king, and placed on the throne; and this aggravated the rebellion of Adonijah, that it was against the declared and known will of his father. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 23:1

David was old and full of days - On the phrase full of days, see the note on Genesis 25:8 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1

David… made Solomon his son king over Israel . These words give the key note of what remains in this book. David made his son king, as he himself acknowledges ( 1 Chronicles 28:5 ), under the superintending direction of God. The manner in which the formal event was precipitated by the conduct of Adonijah is found at length in 1 Kings 1:11-53 . The original occasion alluded to there more than once, on which David promised, "and sware" to Bathsheba, that her son should be his chief heir... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-5

EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicles 24:1-31 . The twenty-four orders of the singers and musicians occupy the contents of 1 Chronicles 25:1-31 . And the divisions of the porters, with their gates; and of those Levites who had the keeping of the treasures of the house of God; and the officers and judges, fill up 1 Chronicles... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 23:1

See the marginal references and notes. 1 Chronicles 23:28-32 give the most complete account in Scripture of the nature of the Levitical office. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 23:1

1 Chronicles 23:1. He made Solomon king over Israel Not that he resigned the kingdom to him, but only declared his mind concerning Solomon’s succeeding him in the throne after his death. Thus David himself is called king, 1 Samuel 16:1, because he was appointed and anointed to be king after Saul’s death, though till then he was only a subject. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-32

Arrangements for the Levites (23:1-26:32)Having appointed Solomon to be his successor, David made further arrangements for the service of the temple. First, he set out a plan to distribute duties among the Levites. A census showed that there were 38,000 Levites eligible for temple service. Of these, 14,000 were official record-keepers, judges, guards, singers and musicians. The remainder were to help in the general service of the temple (23:1-6). Clearly, there were far too many Levites to work... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Chronicles 23:1

old and full of days. Compare Abraham (Genesis 25:8 ), and Isaac (Genesis 35:29 ). David horn in 990. Now in his seventieth year. full of = satisfied with. made Solomon his son king. During his lifetime. This was a common practice in those days; and these co-regnant kings explain many chronological problems. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 23:1

DAVID PRESCRIBES THE OFFICES OF THE LEVITES;THREE DIVISIONS OF THE LEVITES"Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers... read more