So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
So David slept with his fathers - about six months after the coronation of Solomon (cf. 2 Samuel 5:5 with 1 Chronicles 29:27). The interval was spent in developing his ideas and plans for the future glory of the kingdom, and providing for the permanent worship of God, (see the notes at 1 Chronicles 22:1-19, et seq.)
And was buried in the city of David. Graves were not allowed within the precincts of cities. Jerusalem, however, formed an exception; and yet even there the privilege was reserved chiefly for the royal family (Acts 2:29). Tradition says that the bones of David rest on Mount Zion, and the minaret of a small mosque points out the spot which tradition has fixed. In the year 1853 M. de Saulcy in his tour examined the tombs of the kings of Judah on the north side of Jerusalem, and among other extraordinary discoveries which he claims to have made, is that of a sarcophagus, which he brought to France, depositing it in the gallery of the Louvre, where, with matchless assumption, it is exhibited as the identical sarcophagus of King David!