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1 Kings 2:10

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Burial;   David;   Death;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;   Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burial;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Sepulchre;   Zion or Sion;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sleep;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burial;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Grave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - David, City of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Reuben;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sepulchre;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Shimei ;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - canticle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon;   Talent;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Burial, Sepulchres;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Burial and sepulchers;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Hebrew Names Version
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
King James Version
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
English Standard Version
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
New Century Version
Then David died and was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem.
New English Translation
Then David passed away and was buried in the City of David.
Amplified Bible
So David lay down with his fathers [in death] and was buried in the City of David.
New American Standard Bible
Then David lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Contemporary English Version
David was king of Israel forty years. He ruled seven years from Hebron and thirty-three years from Jerusalem. Then he died and was buried in Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
Darby Translation
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then David died and was buried in the City of David.
George Lamsa Translation
So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Good News Translation
David died and was buried in David's City.
Lexham English Bible
Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.
Literal Translation
And David lay with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Dauid slepte with his fathers, and was buried in the cite of Dauid.
American Standard Version
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
King James Version (1611)
So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
English Revised Version
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Berean Standard Bible
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli Dauid slepte with hise fadris, and was biriede in the citee of Dauid.
Young's Literal Translation
And David lieth down with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David,
Update Bible Version
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Webster's Bible Translation
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
World English Bible
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
New King James Version
1 Chronicles 3:4; 29:26-28">[xr] So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David.
New Living Translation
Then David died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.
New Life Bible
Then David died and was buried in the city of David.
New Revised Standard
Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then David slept with his fathers, - and was buried in the city of David.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Revised Standard Version
Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
THE MESSAGE
Then David joined his ancestors. He was buried in the City of David. David ruled Israel for forty years—seven years in Hebron and another thirty-three in Jerusalem. Solomon took over on the throne of his father David; he had a firm grip on the kingdom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying, 2 I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man; 3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go, 4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel. 5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause. 6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace. 7 But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother. 8 Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword. 9 But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood. 10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

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 resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Revelation 22:1
And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

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.


 
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