Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
David, as recorded in the foregoing chapter, had, by the great mercy of God, escaped the sword of the destroying angel. But our deliverances from or through diseases and dangers are but reprieves; if the candle be not blown out, it will burn out of itself. We have David here sinking under the infirmities of old age, and brought by them to the gates of the grave.
Commenting on 1 Kings 1:1-4
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, Sa2 5:4; this was just the age of man, Psa 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...
Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. The Argument - Because the children of God should expect no continual rest and quietness in this world, the Holy Spirit sets before our eyes in this book the variety and change of things, which came to the people of Israel from the death of...