1 Chronicles 23:1

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 Ch1 28:2,

he made Solomon his son king over…

See the marginal references and notes. 1Ch 23:28-32 give the most complete account in Scripture of the nature of the Levitical office.

David was old and full of days - On the phrase full of days, see the note on Gen 25:8.

Here we have, I. The crown entailed, according to the divine appointment, Ch1 23:1. David made Solomon king, not to reign with him, or reign under him, but only to reign after him. This he did, 1.…