David appears to have in mind the divine address to Joshua. Without slavishly imitating it, he reproduces several of its key expressions and ideas …

I go the way of all the earth. — Compare to Joshua 23:14.

I go the way of all the earth
A path which is the path of death ^F15, which all pass in, kings and peasant…

David's charge to Solomon is to keep the charge of the Lord. The authority of a dying father is significant, but it is nothing compared to that of …