1 Kings - 1:1 Meaning

“Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.”

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-4 We have David sinking under infirmities. He was chastised for his recent sins, and felt the effects of his former toils and hardships.

“Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.”

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