Fourty years] And so the years of his life, seventy, when he dies of age. For he was thirty when he began to reigne, 2 Sam. V. 4. And yet Jesse was above one hundred, when he begat him: See on Rahab, Josh. II. And we read not of any King of Judah, or Israel after David that attained to his age: Onely Vzziah, and Manasseh came very near it.