1 Chronicles 23:1

Solomon Reigns

1 ¹Now when David reached old age, ²he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

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1 Chronicles 23:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 23:1

So when David was old and full of days
Perhaps was now in the last year of his age, about seventy years old, though before he was bedridden; see ( 1 Chronicles 28:2 ) ,

he made Solomon his son king over Israel;
declared him to be his successor; this was before the affair of Adonijah, for then he ordered him to be anointed king, and placed on the throne; and this aggravated the rebellion of Adonijah, that it was against the declared and known will of his father.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Chronicles 23:1 In-Context

1 Now when David reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

2 And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites.

3 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000 .

4 Of these, 24,000 were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD ; and 6,000 were officers and judges

5 and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 were praising the LORD with the instruments which David made for giving praise.

Cross References 2

1. 1 Chronicles 29:28
2. 1 Kings 1:1-40; 1 Kings 2:12; 1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Chronicles 29:22

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "became old and sated with days"