John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 2:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So David slept with his fathers, etc.] 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 f23 on the day of Pentecost, and according to Bishop Usher f24 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, (<100507>2 Samuel 5:7); and his sepulchre remained unto the times of the apostles, upwards of a thousand years, (see Gill on “<440229>Acts 2:29”).

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