Acts 13:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some point these words otherwise, reading them thus; David, after he had served his generation, by the will of God fell asleep: which contains indeed a truth, viz. that God hath appointed every one's time in the world, and that the issue of life and death are his; but thus they would prove little to David's praise, for who dies otherwise but according to the determinate counsel of God? But this is remembered to David's glory, that, according to the will of God, he was a public good, and he lived and governed by the rule and square of God's word; notwithstanding which he fell asleep, and saw death, but such as did not deserve so terrible a name. Laid unto his fathers; buried amongst his ancestors; and saw corruption; and his body corrupted as theirs. Now this verse explains the former, and draws the argument home, in that it proves, that the words before mentioned could not be meant of David, but of one that he typified and represented.