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36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
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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