6And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. …
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. …
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. …
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)A great deal of service David had done in his day, had served his generation according to the will of God , Acts 13:36. But now the time draws night that he must die, and, as a type of the Son of David, the nearer he comes to his end the more busy he is, and does his work with all his might. He is now a little recovered from the indisposition mentioned 1 Kgs. 1:1; when they covered him with clothe…
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