1 Chronicles 23:1

David Organizes the Levites

1 Now David [was] old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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.

1 Chronicles 23:1 In-Context

1 Now David [was] old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

2 And he assembled all the commanders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

3 And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men [was] thirty-eight thousand.

4 Of these, [David said,] "Twenty-four thousand [are] to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials

5 four thousand gatekeepers, [and] four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise."