as it did, 2 $am.16. 8. and therefore he juſtly prays, that they may : be gaih. red and united together in hearty Love as well asin outward | Shew : and partly, becauſe this Pſalm or Prayer was made by David ; for the uſe of the Church, not only in that preſent time, but 1n
future Ages, in which David foreſaw by the Spirir of Prophecy, or , pired, that thou muſt go ro be with thy fathers, that I
by conſideration of thoſe Ancient and Sacred PrediQtions, Deut. | 31. and 32. thatthe Iſraelites would one time orother forſake God and for their Apoſtacy be diſperſed among the Heathens, when they ſhould have great and particular needof this Prayer, 36 Bleſſzd be the LORD God of [lſrael for ever and Peat. ever : and all * the people faid, Amen, and praiſed | 9.15- the LORD.
- So he left there d, before the ark of the covenant from him that was before thee.
of the LORD, Aſaph and his brethren, to miniſter before the ark continually, as every days work required: d i.e. He appointed them their Work and Station there. | 3 And Obed-edom, with their brethren, threeſcore | and eight : Obed-edom alſo the fon of Jeduthun, and Hoſah to be porters e : e Or, Door-keepers, as the ſame Hebrew Word is rendred, 6. 15. 23, 24. of which ſee the Note on v. 23. : 39 And Zadok the prieſt f, and his brethen the '| Kings Prieſts, before the tabernacle of the LORD, * in the 14 high place that was at Gibeon, | f Not the High Prieſt, bur the ſecond, and the Chief Prieſt at Gibcon, where tae Famous Tabernacle and Altar made by Moſes ſtill
were, 1 Chron 21. 29. 2 Chron. .3. where alſo the Ordinary Sacri- fices were offered, and the ſtated and publick Woſhip of God
neſs. waſte them any more : ( as at the beginning,
6 Such as are devoted and wholly given up to Wickedneſs ; elſewhere called Children of Bel:al.
10 And || lince the time that I commanded judges to be over my peop:e Ifrael ) moreover, I will ſubdue all thine enemies. Furthermore, I tell thee,that the LORD will build thee an houſe.
11 And it ſhall come to paſs, when thy days be ex-
[| Or, as.
will raiſe up thy ſeed afcer thee, which ſhall be of thy ſons, and I will eſtabliſh his kingdom.
12 He ſhall build me an houſe, and IT will eſtabliſh his throne for ever.
12 * I will be his father, and he ſhall be my-ſon, and * 4 Sam. I willnot cake my mercy away from him, as I took it 7+ 14.
14 Bur 1 will ſettle him in mine houſe c, and in m kingdom dfor ever, and his throne (hall be eſtabliſhed
for evermore.
c In my Dwelling-place, either, 1. In Jeruſalem, the place where God had put his Name for ever, 2 K:ngs 21.4, 7« 2 Chron. 6. 5,6. Compare » Kings 11.36. and 15. 4. Or, 2. In the Temple, which is more properly and conſtantly called Gods Houſe ; and fo this. Ex+ preſſion agrees but very imperfe&tly with Solomon, or his Succeſlors, who might be ſaid to be {ſertcled in Gods Houſe, becauſe they were ſerrled near 1t,and in ſome ſort ſet over it,becauſe they were to take care that the Prieſts and others ſhould perform their Offices and Gods Service in it; bur ſtritly and properly agrees only to Chriſt, to whom alone that Promiſe alſo of an Everlaſting Eſtabliſhment in this Kingdom belongs, as was noted on. 2 Szm. 7, And this Expreſſion ſeems to be moſt emphatically added, to ſignifie, that that Perſon in whom all thoſe Promiſes ſhould be fully and perfe&ly accompli-
hawvs been. |
was performed, as it here follows, for which the Prieſts were placed there; as the Extraordinary Worthip was before the Ark upon great Occaſions, as when God was contulted, which was to be done before the Ark and by the High-Prieſt, Exo4.28. r2,20,21.who now
: ſhed, ro wir, the Mefſias, ſhould be ſettled not only in the Kings Throne, as others of Davids Succeilors were, bur alſo in Gods Houſe . or Temple ; and conſequently, that he ſhould be a Prieſt as well as a King ; which Myſtery was more clearly revealed ro David, Pſal.
was Aviathar ; who thereforeabode here with the Ark, when Zaack was left at Gzbeon.
40 To offer burnt-offerings untothe LORD upon the
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Exod. altar of the burnt-offering continually * ||morning and + 9.38. evening, and te do according to all that zs written in the Numb. Jaw of the LORD, which he commanded Iſrael :
Til, 41 And with them Heman andJeduthun,and the reſt :
ihemrn- that were choſen, who were expreiled by nameg, to give ' iy ul in thanks to the LORD, becauſe his mercy endureth for , threveming, ever : | g So exceeding careful was this good King of Gods Worſhip, that | he would have no perſon employed in it, bur ſuch as he appointed
to it, and were fit for ir.
42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trum- pets and cymbals, for thole that ſhould make a ſound, and with muſical inſtruments of God þ : and the ſons
';, of Jedurhun were + porters.
h :.e Appointed and appropriated to the Worſhip and Honour of God. 42 And all the people departed every man to his houſe .aad David returned to bleſs his houſe. CHAP. XVIL | avid defrening to build God an Houſe : Nathan at firſt approveth of it : 2 aw aig of God forbiddeth him, 1 2 o_ him Bleſſmgs and Benefits in hu Seed, 11 IS, David's Prayer and Thankſgiving, 16—22+ Ow * it came to paſs 4 as David fat in his houſe, that David ſaid to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an houſe of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains. | # This whole Chapter it explained, 2 Sam. 7: where the ſame things are recorded with very little variation. of the Words ; which alſo hath been conſidered in my Notes upon that Chapter; to which I refer the Reader, taking notice here but of ſome very few things. 2 Then Nathan taid unto David, Do all that is in thine heart, for God js with thee. 3 Andit cams to paſs the ſame night, that the word of God came to Nathan, ſaying,
4 Goand tell David my ſ{&rvant, "Thus faith the Lord,
* Sam, 1. I, CC