Church History: His death: He fell asleep. Death is a sleep, a quiet rest, to those who, while they lived, labored in the service of God and their generation. Observe, He did not fall asleep till he had served his generation, till he had done the work for which God raised him up. God's servants have their work assigned them; and, when they have accomplished as a hireling their day, then, and not till then, they are called to rest. God's witnesses never die till they have finished their testimony; and then the sleep, the death, of the laboring man will be sweet. David was not permitted to build the temple, and therefore when he had made preparation for it, which was the service he was designed to, he fell asleep, and left the work to Solomon.
His burial: He was laid to his fathers. Though he was buried in the city of David (1Kings 2:10), and not in the sepulchre of Jesse his father in Bethlehem, yet he might be said to be laid to his father’s; for the grave, in general, is the habitation of our fathers, of those that are gone before us, (Psalms 49:19).
His continuance in the grave: He saw corruption. We are sure he did not rise again; this Peter insists upon when he freely speaks of the patriarch David (Acts 2:29): He is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. He saw corruption, and therefore that promise could not have its accomplishment in him. But, It was accomplished in the Lord Jesus (Acts 13:37): He whom God raised again saw no corruption; for it was in him that the sure mercies were to be reserved for us. He rose the third day, and therefore did not see corruption then; and he rose to die no more, and therefore never did. Of him therefore the promise must be understood, and no other.
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