25For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
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For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. …
Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)Here is, I. An alteration made in the computation of the effective men of the Levites—that whereas, in Moses’s time, they were not enlisted, or taken into service, till they were thirty-years old, nor admitted as probationers till twenty-five (Num. 8:24), David ordered, by direction from God, that they should be numbered for the service of the house of the Lord , from the age of twenty years and u…
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