2 Samuel 5:4

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David var tretti år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte i firti år.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirty: Luke 3:23

forty: 1 Chronicles 26:31, 1 Chronicles 29:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:46 - years 2 Samuel 2:11 - time 1 Kings 1:1 - old 1 Kings 2:11 - reigned over 1 Chronicles 3:4 - there he reigned Hebrews 11:33 - through

Gill's Notes on the Bible

David [was] thirty years old when he began reign,.... Over Judah, which was the age of his antitype Christ, when he entered upon his public ministry, Luke 3:23;

[and] he reigned forty years; and six months, as appears by 2 Samuel 5:5; but the months are not mentioned, only the round number of years given: two reasons the Jews a give for this; the one, that he fled six months from Absalom; the other is, that he was ill in Hebron so long, and therefore are not reckoned.

a Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 77. I.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The age of David is conclusive as to the fact that the earlier years of Saul’s reign (during which Jonathan grew up to be a man) are passed over in silence, and that the events narrated from 1 Samuel 13:0 to the end of the book did not occupy more than 10 years. If David was 20 years old at the time he killed Goliath, four years in Saul’s service, four years of wandering from place to place, one year and four months in the country of the Philistines, and a few months after Saul’s death, would make up the 10 years necessary to bring him to the age of 30.