1 Kings 1:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

King David was old and advanced in years, and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.

Cross References

Genesis 18:11

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Genesis 24:1

Now Abraham was old, advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

2 Samuel 24:25

David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. So the Lord answered his supplication for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

2 Samuel 5:4

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

1 Kings 1:15

So Bathsheba went to the king in his room. The king was very old; Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

1 Kings 1:2

So his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be his attendant; let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may be warm.”

1 Chronicles 23:1

When David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 4:11

Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

Luke 1:7

But they had no children because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years.

Joshua 13:1

Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land still remains to be possessed.