16And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: …
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. …
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)We have here a full revelation of God’s favour to David and the kind intentions of that favour, the notices and assurances of which God sent him by Nathan the prophet, whom he entrusted to deliver this long message to him. The design of it is to take him off from his purpose of building the temple and it was therefore sent, 1. By the same hand that had given him encouragement to do it, lest, if it…
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