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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

David, that great and good man, is here a dying man (1 Kgs. 2:1), and a dead man, 1 Kgs. 2:10. It is well there is another life after this, for death stains all the glory of this, and lays it in the dust. We have here, I. The charge and instructions which David, when he was dying, gave to Solomon, his son and declared successor. He feels himself declining, and is not backward to own it, nor afraid to hear or speak of dying: I go the way of all the earth, 1 Kgs. 2:2. Heb. I am walking in it.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 2:12-25

Here is, I. Solomon's accession to the throne, 1 Kgs. 2:12. He came to it much more easily and peaceably than David did, and much sooner saw his government established. It is happy for a kingdom when the end of one good reign is the beginning of another, as it was here. II. His just and necessary removal of Adonijah his rival, in order to the establishment of his throne. Adonijah had made some bold pretensions to the crown, but was soon obliged to let them fail and throw himself upon Solomon's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:10

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 F17 T. Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 78. 1. on the day of Pentecost, and according to Bishop Usher F18 Anuals, &c.; p. 56. A. M. 2990, and before Christ 1014; and was buried in the city of David ; not at Bethlehem, in the sepulchre of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:11

And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years ,.... So says Eupolemus F19 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. , an Heathen writer, which are thus reckoned: seven years reigned he in Hebron ; the six months over are omitted, 2 Samuel 5:5 ; this part of his reign was over Judah only: and thirty three years reigned he in Jerusalem ; over the twelve tribes, in all forty, which round number is only given; though in fact he reigned six months more. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:12

Then sat Solomon on the throne of David his father ,.... So he did in his lifetime, with his consent, and by his order, and now by the agreement of the whole people: and his kingdom was established greatly ; all submitting to it, and none opposing it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

A Jewish deathbed. A brilliant poet and essayist once summoned his stepson, the young Earl of Warwick, to his bedside, and with perfect dignity and composure bade him mark "how a Christian man can die." In this section, one far greater, and yet in one sense far less, than Addison,—greater as a poet, as a statesman, as a patriot; less, inasmuch as "he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he,"—beckons us to the chamber of death, and bids us witness the departure of a pious... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

Eikon Basilike. The king, the close of whose chequered and romantic career is narrated in this section, was the pattern king of the Hebrew people, and is in many respects a model for all kings. The portrait drawn here and in the Psalms is a veritable Eikon Basilike, both truer and worthier of regard than that "Portraiture of his sacred Majesty," so famous and so influential in the history of our own country. We see him gathered to his fathers. Let us honestly frame his eulogium. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

Holy Scripture gives us many a touching and pathetic description of the death of the father of a family, showing how it at once sanctions and sanctifies natural affection. The farewells of David remind us of those of Jacob. Death sometimes seems to fill the men of God of the old covenant with the spirit of prophecy, as if the summit of the earthly life was illuminated with a purer radiance falling upon it from a higher sphere. Death is indeed to all the messenger of God to reveal to us great... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:10

So [Heb. and ] David slept [Heb. lay down ] . The idea of שָכַב is not that of sleep so much as of the recumbent posture of the dead. It points to the grave rather than to Sheol (Gesen.), though the latter idea is not excluded. Wordsworth (after a Lapide) finds here "an assertion of the doctrine of the existence of the soul after death, and of the resurrection of the body," but it is not in the text] with his fathers , but down to the age of the apostles ( Acts 2:29 ).... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 2:12-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 2:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 2:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 2:10

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