If you don't, as soon as you are dead, my son Solomon and I will be treated as traitors."

He died at a ripe old age, wealthy and respected, and his son Solomon succeeded him as king.

"My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day.

For David served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.

Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

He died and was buried in David's City, and his son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.

(But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as "David's City.")

Because David went to live in the fortress, it came to be called "David's City."