1 Chronicles 23:1
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New International Version (©2011)
When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When David was an old man, he appointed his son Solomon to be king over Israel.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now when David reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When David was old and full of days, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After David had reached old age, and had completed his reign, he set his son Solomon as king over Israel.

NET Bible (©2006)
When David was old and approaching the end of his life, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When David had grown old and had lived out his years, he made his son Solomon king of Israel.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

American King James Version
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

American Standard Version
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Darby Bible Translation
And David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

English Revised Version
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

World English Bible
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 1. - David... made Solomon his son king over Israel. These words give the key note of what remains in this book. David made his son king, as he himself acknowledges (1 Chronicles 28:5), under the superintending direction of God. The manner in which the formal event was precipitated by the conduct of Adonijah is found at length in 1 Kings 1:11-53. The original occasion alluded to there more than once, on which David promised, "and sware" to Bathsheba, that her son should be his chief heir and successor to the throne, is not distinctly recorded. We can easily assign one convenient place in the history for it to have found monition, viz. in 2 Samuel 12:25. The brevity of the statement which composes this verse, when compared with all the deeply interesting matter recorded in 1 Kings 1:11-53, is one among many other very clear illustrations of the purposed silence of our present history in certain directions.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So when David was old and full of days,.... Perhaps was now in the last year of his age, about seventy years old, though before he was bedridden; see 1 Chronicles 28:2,

he made Solomon his son king over Israel; declared him to be his successor; this was before the affair of Adonijah, for then he ordered him to be anointed king, and placed on the throne; and this aggravated the rebellion of Adonijah, that it was against the declared and known will of his father.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

CHAPTER 23

1Ch 23:1. David Makes Solomon King.

1. when David was old … he made Solomon … king—This brief statement, which comprises the substance of 1Ki 1:32-48, is made here solely to introduce an account of the preparations carried on by David during the latter years of his life for providing a national place of worship.

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Solomon Reigns
1So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

1 Kings 1:1 When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him.
1 Kings 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.
1 Chronicles 23:2 He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.
1 Chronicles 28:5 Of all my sons--and the LORD has given me many--he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:22 They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day. Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, anointing him before the LORD to be ruler and Zadok to be priest.
1 Chronicles 29:28 He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. His son Solomon succeeded him as king.