Divrey Hayamim Alef 23:1

1 3 So when Dovid was old and full of days, he made Sh’lomo bno Melech Yisroel.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 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.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 23:1 In-Context

1 3 So when Dovid was old and full of days, he made Sh’lomo bno Melech Yisroel.

2 And he gathered together all the sarim of Yisroel, with the Kohanim and the Levi’im.

3 Now the Levi’im were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their gulgelot (totals, head count), gevarim (men), was thirty and eight elef.

4 Of which, twenty and four elef were to look after the work of the Beis Hashem; and six alafim were shoterim (officials) and shofetim (judges);

5 Moreover four alafim were sho’arim (gatekeepers); and four alafim praised Hashem with the kelim (instruments) which I made, said Dovid, to praise therewith.