; Did Tever give any Command about it, without which neither they did; nor thou ſhouldſt artempt it? &.In 1 Chren. 17: 6. it is of the Judges, and to them, not to the tribes, the following words agree, whcm I commanded to feed my People Iſrael. Either therefore the Tribes are here put Synecdochically for the Rulers of the Tribes, as the word Church is ſometimes uſed for the Governours of it: or, the word here rendred Tribes, may be rendred Scepters, as it is uſed Ges. 49: 10. and Scepters put for Scepter-bearers or Rulers, as is very frequent.
S Now therefore, ſo ſhalt thou ſay unto my ſervant Pavid /: Thus faith the LORD of hcſts, * I took thee +, $,n. from the theep-cote, | from following the ſheep, to be 16. 1 ruler over my people, over Iſrael . Pf4.78:71
[ Leſt David ſhould be too much diſcouraged, or judge bimſelf T Heb: neg!ctted and forſaken of God, as one thought unworthy of ſo from aftt great an honour, God here gives him the honourable title of his Servant, thereby ſignifying that he accepted of his Service, and of his good Intentions, which alſo was expreſſed at this time.as it may ſeem ficm 1 Kings 8: 18: though nor in this place, 91 ad- vanced thee, and I do nor repent of it.
9 Ard 1 was with thee whitherſoever thou wenteſt, and have cut off all the enemies + out of thy ſight, and + Heb. have made thee a great name, like unto the name of f9.
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i, e. I will eftabliſh them in their Place or Land, Some Learned | Men render the Verſe thus and the Hebrew words will bear it :| And I have appointed ( or, afizned, or, gtven ) 8 place for my people Iſrael ( to wr, the Land of Canann ) and have planted them in it, that they mny dwell in ther own place, and ve no more driven to and fro : or ra- ther, and they ſhall awe! in th:ir own place, &Cc. i, e. As I did long ago appoint it to them, and afterwards planted them, or put them mro actual policſſion, to now they thall continue or Uuwellin it in ſpizht ofall their Enemies. o Among the favours which God had voichafed, and would vouchafe to David, he reckons his Bleſſings to the People of Ijracl, becauſe they were great Bleflings to Davis ; partly, becauſe the ſtrength and happineſs of a King conſiſts in gicar part in the multitude and happineſs of his People ; ani partly, becauſe David was a Man of a pious and publick Spirit, and therefore no Jets atte&ed with 1rae!'s feliciry than with his own. Þ 7.e. In their own Land, not in ſtrange Lands, nor mixed with other People. 9q Either. Firſt, As in the Land cf Egypt, and fo he goes downward to the Ju.'ges. Or, Secondly, As in Saul's Time ; and fo he aſcends to the Judges.
1x And as fince the time that I commanded judges to be over my people l[frael r, and || have cauſed thee to reft from all thine enemies /. ) Alſo the LORD celieth thee, That he will make thee an houſe x.
» Nor as they did under the Judges, neither fo oft, nor ſo long: But all this 1s to be underſtood with a condition, except they ſhould notoriouſly foriake God, or rebel againſt him ; which being fo oft declared by God in other places, ir was needleſs tro mention it here® Or, this may relate to the latter Ages of the Wor!id, when the People of Iſrael ſhall be converted to Chriſt, and recalled out of Captivity, and planted in their own place ; when they ſhall enjoy a far greater degree of Tranquillity than ever they did before. And this agrees beſt with the Future Tenſe, I wih appoint and will plant them, &c. otherwile the work was already done God had already appointed this Land for them, and aftually planted them in it {[ 7. e. And until this time in which I have given thee reſt. But theſe words, though according to our Tranſlation they be incloſed in the ſame Parentheſis with the fore- going Clauſes, may ſeem to be better put without it, and to be taken by themlelves. For the foregoing words in this Verſe, and inv. 10. do all concern the People of 1ſrae! ; but thele words ſeem to con- cern David alone, to whom the Speech returns after a ſhort digreſ- fion concerning the People of 1/rae/. And they may be rendred either thus, And I have cauſed thee to reff, &c. or, And I will cauſe thee ro reſt, &c to wit, more fully and perfeQly than yer thou doſt. t For thy good Intentions to make him an Houſe, he w: make thee an Houſe, to wit, a ſure Heuje, as is expreſſed, 1 Kings 11. 38. #. e he will encreaſc ar.d uphold thy Poſterity, and continue thy King- dom in thy i amiiy.
i2 4 And * when thy days be fulfilled s, and thou ſhalt ſleep with thy fathers, I will ſer up thy ſeed after thee x, which ſhall proceed: out of thy bowels y, and I will eſtabliſh his kingdom.