1 Rois 1:1

1 Or le roi David était vieux, et avancé en âge; et, quoiqu'on le couvrît de vêtements, il ne pouvait se réchauffer.

1 Rois 1:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 1:1

Now King David was old, [and] stricken in years
Was seventy years of age; for he was thirty years of age when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, ( 2 Samuel 5:4 ) ; this was just the age of man, ( Psalms 90:10 ) ;

and they covered him with clothes;
not wearing apparel, but bed clothes; he seems to have been bedridden and paralytic:

but he got no heat;
by them; having no natural heat in him, clothes could not communicate any to him, only keep the cold from him, see ( Haggai 1:6 ) ; there are many persons at the age he was, that are lively, healthful, and robust, comparatively speaking at least; but David's strength was impaired, and his natural force abated by his many wars, fatigues by night and day in campaigns, and the many sorrows and afflictions he met with from his family and his friends, as well as enemies; which exhausted his natural moisture, weakened his nerves, and drank up his spirits, and brought upon him the infirmities of a decrepit old age very soon.

1 Rois 1:1 In-Context

1 Or le roi David était vieux, et avancé en âge; et, quoiqu'on le couvrît de vêtements, il ne pouvait se réchauffer.

2 Alors ses serviteurs lui dirent: Qu'on cherche au roi, mon seigneur, une jeune fille vierge qui se tienne devant le roi et qui en ait soin; et qu'elle dorme en ton sein, afin que le roi, mon seigneur, se réchauffe.

3 On chercha donc dans tout le territoire d'Israël une belle jeune fille, et on trouva Abishag, la Sunamite, qu'on amena au roi.

4 Or cette jeune fille était fort belle; et elle avait soin du roi et le servait; mais le roi ne la connut point.

5 Or Adonija, fils de Hagguith, s'éleva, disant: Je régnerai. Et il se procura des chars et des cavaliers, et cinquante hommes qui couraient devant lui.