“Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.
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