11And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
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David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. …
Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)David, that great and good man, is here a dying man (1 Kgs. 2:1), and a dead man, 1 Kgs. 2:10. It is well there is another life after this, for death stains all the glory of this, and lays it in the dust. We have here, I. The charge and instructions which David, when he was dying, gave to Solomon, his son and declared successor. He feels himself declining, and is not backward to own it, nor afraid…
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