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30If his children forsake{H8799)} my law, and walk{H8799)} not in my judgments;
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I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
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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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