1 Kings 2:10

10 Then David lay down with his ancestors and was buried in David's City.

1 Kings 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 2:10

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 ^F17 on the day of Pentecost, and according to Bishop Usher ^F18 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, (See Gill on Acts 2:29).

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 T. Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 78. 1.
F18 Anuals p. 56.

1 Kings 2:10 In-Context

8 Now as for this Shimei, Gera's son—a Benjaminite from Bahurim—who is with you, he cursed me viciously when I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, ‘Surely I won't execute you with the sword.'

9 But you don't need to excuse him. You are wise and know what to do to him. Give him a violent death."

10 Then David lay down with his ancestors and was buried in David's City.

11 He ruled over Israel forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

12 Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his royal power was well established.