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35Once have I sworn{H8738)} by my holiness that I will not lie{H8762)} unto David.
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The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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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