Verse 2
DAVID’S DYING CHARGE TO SOLOMON, AND HIS DEATH, 1 Kings 2:1-11.
2. I go the way of all the earth “Pale death,” says Horace, “with impartial footstep knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings.” It is appointed unto man once to die, whether he be king or slave.
Be thou strong That is, be firm, decided, and courageous in all thy administration. Compare Joshua 1:6-7; Joshua 1:9.
Show thyself a man Be in righteous words and deeds a royal godly man. There have been those, and royal personages too, who ill deserved the name of men. Better to call them ravenous beasts, or vipers. Solomon’s youth may have been one reason for David’s utterance of these words. He was “but a little child,” (1 Kings 3:7,) probably nineteen or twenty years of age; and with many turbulent elements in the nation, there was need on his part of a pre-eminently firm and manly spirit.
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