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17There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
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And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)These are precious promises, confirmed by an oath , that the heirs of them might have strong consolation , Heb. 6:17 , 18 . It is all one whether we take them as pleas urged in the prayer or as answers returned to the prayer; believers know how to make use of the promises both ways, with them to speak to God and in them to hear what God the Lord will speak to us. These promises relate to the estab…
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