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- 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. "Davidª [was] thirtyª yearsª oldª when he began to reign,ª° [and] he reignedª° fortyª years.ª" {2Sm 5:4} + "So when Davidª was oldª° and fullª° of days,ª he made¹¹ Solomonª his sonª king²° over¹ Israel.ª" {1Ch 23:1} + "And the timeª that¹ he reignedª° over¹ Israelª [was] fortyª years;ª sevenª yearsª reignedª° he in Hebron,ª and thirtyª and threeª [years] reignedª° he in Jerusalem.ª ... And he diedª° in a good² old age,ª¹ fullª of days,ª riches,ª and honour:ª and Solomonª his sonª reignedª° in his stead.¹" {1Ch 29:27-28} + "The daysª of our yearsª [are] threescore²° years² and ten;ª¹ and if¹ by reason of strengthª [they be] fourscoreª years,ª yet [is] their strengthª labourª and sorrow;ª for¹ it is soonª cut off,ª° and we fly away.ª°" {Psa 90:10}
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