Defeat Of Adonijah's Party
Among Adonijah's guests at the banquet panic reigned. Adonijah, realizing that his life hung on a thread, ran off to the Ophel and entered the tent where the Ark of the Covenant was. There stood there a small altar whose four corners were shaped like horns. Adonijah seized one of these horns and clung to it -this was the gesture of a suppliant who, in the tabernacle of YAHWEH, asked for refuge. In a tone full of contempt Solomon said to him, 'Go to your house'. Further action could be decided upon later. Joab and the other plotters all went home. It was the best thing they could do.
As David's life drew to a close he laid this charge on his son Solomon, 'I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong and show yourself a man'...
So David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the Citadel of David.
1 Melechim 2:1-2, 10
The Death Of David: 970 B.C.
David bowed down on his bed, saying, 'Blessed be YAHWEH, the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael, who has allowed my eyes to see one of my descendants sitting on my throne today! In fact, it was his own fault that it had not happened sooner; had it been done so many complications would have been avoided.
Shortly afterwards David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the Citadel of David. He was seventy years old. His tomb was hollowed out of the rock of Ophel, it appears. It probably forms part of the eastern necropolis of the hill in which several royal tombs have already been discovered.