1Ki 1:1 | TSK | e4.org | old David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years. ; , ; and stricken in years Heb. and entered into days, , ; ;

‏ 1 Kings 1:1

old David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years. 2Sam 5:4; 1Chr 23:1, 1Chr 29:27-28; Ps 90:10

and stricken in years Heb. and entered into days, Gen 18:11, Gen 24:1; Josh 23:1-2; Luke 1:7