30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
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The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. …
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, …
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. …
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. …
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this ?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked; for he begins with the notice of that (Acts 2:15), and addresses his discourse (Acts…
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