Комментарий к Мелахим А 1:1

But he was not warmed. Our Rabbis said, “He who disgraces clothing will ultimately be deprived of their pleasures.”¹Maseches Berachos 62b. [Dovid’s clothing did not warm him] because he tore off the corner of Shaul’s robe.²See I Shmuel 24:5. The Midrash [Aggadah states], Rabbi Shmuel son of Nachmeni said, that as Dovid saw the angel standing in Yerusholayim with his sword drawn in his hand, his blood became cold from fear.³That terror of that experience remained with Dovid, and from then on he could never again find warmth.

Now King David was old: Until "Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh." (1 Kings 3:1)

The first topic retells how David made Shlomo his son king during his life because of the matter of Adoniyahu and what he [ David] commanded him [Shlomo] before his death and the matters of his burial. The beginning of the topic “and the King David was old…” and ends with “and Adoniyah the son of Chagit came to Bat Sheva…” and now I have asked six question as is my way.

And they covered him in clothes, but he could get no heat: It is known that clothes do not warm a person up, but rather they incidentally prevent the air which surrounds the body from cooling him. Therefore his servants requested for him something that would provide him with warmth. And they chose for him that he would be warmed by the warmth of a young virgin for many reasons - first, that she would warm him (physically), second, that she would excite the man and arouse him for sex, and third that it would arouse his nature because of her beauty and her being a virgin, and this would cause him to warm himself.

The first question is what I asked in the general introduction that I wrote to the Book of Joshua, namely why does this book begin with the affairs of David in his old age and his commands to Solomon before his death? These would more appropriately recounted in the Book of Samuel which is dedicated to David’s history and would be completed with his death and begin the Book of Kings with Solomon and his recounting. Why is it fit to discuss in this place?