Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
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Gill's Exposition
Then David the king stood up upon his feet,.... Rose from the bed or couch on which he lay, as Kimchi thinks, being somewhat recovered of his paralytic disorder, and being willing to exert himself on…
Barnes' Notes
My brethren - David retains the modest phrase of a king not born in the purple, but raised from the ranks of the people (see 1Sa 30:23; 2Sa 19:12). No later Jewish monarch would have thus addressed…
Adam Clarke
David - stood up upon his feet - He was now very old, and chiefly confined to his bed, (see Kg1 1:47); and while he was addressing his son Solomon, he continued on the bed; but when all the principal…
A great deal of service David had done in his day, had served his generation according to the will of God, Act 13:36. But now the time draws night that he must die, and, as a type of the Son of David,…
Cambridge Bible
stood up upon his feet Kings sometimes made orations sitting; cp. Act 12:21. Here the king stands to mark the greatness of the occasion.
my brethren The king is the brotherof his subjects; Deu 17:15;…
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