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7In his days shall the righteous flourish{H8799)}; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Psalms 72:7

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

  • But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

  • The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

  • A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

  • O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-17)

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,…

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