For we [are] aliens and pilgrims before You, As [were] all our fathers; Our days on earth [are] as a shadow, And without hope.

So he died in a good old age, full of days and riches and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

"For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;

"Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go [to be] among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

"Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted as offenders."

So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David.

"Men [and] brethren, let [me] speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

"And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

" When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

"He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him,

and He sent [word] by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

"So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

The LORD has sworn [in] truth to David; He will not turn from it: "I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body.

" Behold, [the] days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this [is] His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

[and] declared [to be] the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.