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1 Kings 1:1
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Now King David was old and advanced in age. Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
At this time King David was very old, and although his servants covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.
Now King David was old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.
Now when King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, they couered him with clothes, but no heate came vnto him.
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.
King David was now an old man, and he always felt cold, even under a lot of blankets.
King David grew old, the years took their toll, and he couldn't get warm even when they covered him with bedclothes.
And king David was old [and] advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.
King David was very old and could not keep warm. His servants covered him with blankets, but he was still cold.
NOW King David was old and well advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.
King David was now a very old man, and although his servants covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
Now King David had become old, advanced in years, and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm.
And King David was old, going into days. And they covered him with garments, for he had no heat.
And wha kinge Dauid was olde & well strycke in age, he coulde not be warme, though he was couered with clothes.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.
And king Dauid was olde and stricken in yeres, so that whe they couered him with clothes, he caught no heate.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.
Now King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, and they couered him with clothes, but hee gate no heate.
And king David was old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Now King David was old and advanced in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.
And kyng Dauid wax eld, and hadde ful many daies of age; and whanne he was hilid with clothis, he was not maad hoot.
And king David [is] old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
Now king David was old [and] advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
Now King David was old, advanced in years; and they put covers on him, but he could not get warm.
King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.
Now King David was old. He had lived many years. They covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.
King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
Now, King David, was old, advanced in days, - and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes he was not warm.
Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
King David grew old. The years had caught up with him. Even though they piled blankets on him, he couldn't keep warm. So his servants said to him, "We're going to get a young virgin for our master the king to be at his side and look after him; she'll get in bed with you and arouse our master the king." So they searched the country of Israel for the most ravishing girl they could find; they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king. The girl was stunningly beautiful; she stayed at his side and looked after the king, but the king did not have sex with her.
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
old: David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years. 2 Samuel 5:4, 1 Chronicles 23:1, 1 Chronicles 29:27, 1 Chronicles 29:28, Psalms 90:10
and stricken in years: Heb. and entered into days, Genesis 18:11, Genesis 24:1, Joshua 23:1, Joshua 23:2, Luke 1:7
Reciprocal: Joshua 13:1 - Joshua Ecclesiastes 4:11 - General
Cross-References
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them"; and it was so.
The earth produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now King David was old, [and] stricken in years,.... Was seventy years of age; for he was thirty years of age when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, 2 Samuel 5:4; this was just the age of man, Psalms 90:10;
and they covered him with clothes; not wearing apparel, but bed clothes; he seems to have been bedridden and paralytic:
but he got no heat; by them; having no natural heat in him, clothes could not communicate any to him, only keep the cold from him, see Haggai 1:6; there are many persons at the age he was, that are lively, healthful, and robust, comparatively speaking at least; but David's strength was impaired, and his natural force abated by his many wars, fatigues by night and day in campaigns, and the many sorrows and afflictions he met with from his family and his friends, as well as enemies; which exhausted his natural moisture, weakened his nerves, and drank up his spirits, and brought upon him the infirmities of a decrepit old age very soon.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now - Rather, “and.” The conjunction has here, probably, the same sort of connecting force which it has at the opening of Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, etc., and implies that the historian regards his work as a continuation of a preceding history.
King David - The expression “king David,” instead of the simpler “David,” is characteristic of the writer of Kings. (See the introduction to the Book of Kings) The phrase is comparatively rare in Chronicles and Samuel.
Stricken in, years - David was perhaps now in his first year. He was thirty years old when he was made king in Hebron 2 Samuel 5:4; he reigned in Hebron seven years and six months 2Sa 2:11; 1 Chronicles 3:4; and he reigned thirty-three years at Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:5. The expression had here been used only of persons above eighty Genesis 18:11; Genesis 24:1; Joshua 13:1; Joshua 23:1 : but the Jews at this time were not long-lived. No Jewish monarch after David, excepting Solomon and Manasseh, exceeded sixty years.
Clothes - Probably “bed-clothes.” The king was evidently bed-ridden 1 Kings 1:47.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
-Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 2989.
-Year before the Incarnation, 1015.
-Year from the destruction of Troy, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 170.
-Year before the first Olympiad, 239.
-Year before the building of Rome, 262.
-Year of the Julian Period, 3699.
-Year of the Dionysian Period, 507.
-Cycle of the Sun, 3.
-Cycle of the Moon, 13.
-Year of Acastus, the second perpetual archon of the Athenians, 31.
-Pyritiades was king over the Assyrians about this time, according to Scaliger, Langius, and Strauchius. He was the thirty-seventh monarch, (including Belus,) according to Africanus, and the thirty-third according to Eusebius.
-Year of Alba Silvius, the sixth king of the Latins, 15.
-Year of David, king of the Hebrews, 40.
CHAPTER I
David, grown old, is, by the advice of his physicians,
cherished by Abishag the Shunummite, 1-4.
Adonijah conspires with Joab and Abiathar to seize on the
government, 5-10.
Nathan and Bathsheba communicate these tidings to the aged king,
11-27.
David immediately pronounces Solomon his successor, and causes
Zadok and Nathan to proclaim and anoint him king, 28-40.
Adonijah and his friends hear of it, are afraid, and flee away,
Adonijah laying hold on the horns of the altar, from which he
refuses to go till Solomon shall promise him his life; this he
does, and banishes him to his own house, 41-53.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse 1 Kings 1:1. Now King David was old — He was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in the seventieth year of his age, 2 Samuel 5:4, and 1 Kings 2:11; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death.
But he gat no heat. — Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but David had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially by family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than he was in years. Besides he seems to have laboured under some wasting maladies, to which there is frequent reference in the Psalms.
