This is a prophecy of the prosperity and perpetuity of the kingdom of Christ under the shadow of the reign of Solomon. It comes in, 1. As a plea to enforce the prayer: “Lord, give him thy judgments and thy righteousness , and then he shall judge thy people with righteousness , and so shall answer the end of his elevation, Ps. 72:2. Give him thy grace, and then thy people, committed to his charge, ...