Verse 1
1. David was old As he was thirty years old when he began to reign, and reigned forty years, (2 Samuel 5:4,) he must now have been in his seventieth year.
Stricken in years Literally, as the margin, entered into days; far gone in days, having reached an advanced period of life.
Clothes Probably bedclothes are to be understood; coverlets.
He gat no heat Literally, there was no heat to him. Abundance of clothes could not restore animal heat to a decrepit system. The older expositors assign various causes for this lack of animal heat: as, an attack of some disease of a chilling nature; the loss of much blood by war and other ways; or the result of excessive labours in earlier life. But the loss of animal warmth is a common experience of the old age of persons who have spent a life of vicissitudes and anxious toils.
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