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27Also I will make{H8799)} him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-37)The covenant God made with David and his seed was mentioned before ( Ps. 89:3 , 4 ); but in these verses it is enlarged upon, and pleaded with God, for favour to the royal family, now almost sunk and ruined; yet certainly it looks at Christ, and has its accomplishment in him much more than in David; nay, some passages here are scarcely applicable at all to David, but must be understood of Christ o…
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