110. 1, 2, 4. and may be intimated, though obſcurely ( as was fit and uſual in that ſtate of the Church ) in theſe Words. 4 Ether. 1. In the Kingdom of 1/7ae!, which God calls his Kingdom, becauſe he was in a ſpecial manner their King and Governour, having raiſed them up and formed theminto a Kingdom, and given them that Prote&ion and Aſſiſtance which Kings owe to their Kingdoms ; and becauſe he expected and required from them, what Kings do from their People, that they ſhould be wholly governed by his Laws, and devoted to his Service. Or, 2. In Gods Kingdom in a more large and general Sence. And this, as well as the f,rmer Phraſe, may feem ſingularly to belong to the Meſſiah, who was not only to be the King of rae, bur alſo of all Nations, as was foretold even in the Old Teſtament, as Pſal. 2. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12+ and 22. 27, 28. and 72, 11. 1a, 2, 4! Hag. 2. 7- and ſo this may be an Intimation of that great Myſtery which is more fully revealed in the New Teſtament, to wit, that Chriſt is the Head, or King, or Governour ofall Gods Church, con- ſiting of Jews and Gentiles, and ofall Nations, and indeed of all Creatures, the Angels not excepted 3 all which is Gods Kingdom, and by him given to his Son our Bleſſed Lord Chriſt. And for the ſignification of theſe great things there is ſo great and remarkable an. Alteration of the Phraſe here from what it is in 2 Sam. 7. where ſpeaking to David, he conſtanly calls it his (7. 2 Davids ) Kingdom, and his Houſe, v 12, 13, 16, 19, 25, 27. for which he here ſaith my Houſe, and my Kingdom, which alſo he diſtinguiſheth from his Throne, which is mentioned in the next Clauſe of this Verſe, and in v, 11, 12. Bur theſe things I ſubmit ro the Judicious Reader.
15 According toall theſe words, andaccording toall this vihon, fo did Nathan fpeak unto David.
16 And David the king came, and fat e before the LORD, and f{aid, Who amTI, O LORD God, and what is mine houſe, that thou haſt brought me hitherto ?
e Which may note either his Geſture ; or his Coatinuance there till he had finiſhed this following Prayer.
17 And yer this was a fmall thing in thine eyes, O God, for thou haft a!ſo ſpoken of thy fervants houſe for a great while to come, and haſt regarded me according, to the eſtate of a man ofhigh degree, O LORD God f.
f ive. Theu haft treated me as if I had been born the Son of a great Monarch, and not a poor Shepherd, as indeed I was, O Lord God. Oth. 'Thus,. Thou ha#t regarded or reſpetted me as the Type or Figure, or according #6 the Rawk or Order of that excellent Man,or Man of high Degree, who is alſo the Lord God, i.e. of the Meſſiah, who is God-Man. 3. s, Thou haft given to me and my Houſe an Everlaſting
Thou ſhalt not build me an houſe to dwell in. 5 For I have not dweltinan houls ſince the day that
Kingdom, which is the peculiar Priviledge of that great Perſon the Meihab, Dan, 2. 44. aid 7. 13, 14+ | | 3 R 4 x3 What
ap. XVIII. 1. CHER
PY 18 What can David f ſpeak moreto thee for the ho-
'—* nour of thy ſervant ? for thou knoweſt thy ſervant.
19 O LORD for thy ſervants ſake g, and according to thine own heart ol thou done all this greatneſs, in
I own all theſe | greatthings. OS - 7.21. it is, for jy nov -* Ht s. for the ſake of thy
Word and Promiſe made to thy Servant ; as that Phraſe, for Davias
ſake, is oft thus underſtood, for God's Covenants ſake made with
David.
209 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there
#ny god beſides thee, according .to all that we have heard
with Our ears.
21 And what one nation in the earth 3s like thy people Ifrael, whom God went toredeem 70 be his own
cople, to make thee a name of F greatnels and terri- bleneſs, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou haſt redeemed out of Egypt ? |
22 Eor thy people Iſrael didft thou make thine own people for ever, and thou LORD, becameſt cheir God.
22 Therefore now LORD et the thing that thou haſt ſpoken concerning thy ſervant,and concerning his houſe, be eſtabliſhed for ever, and do, as thou haſt faid.
24 Let iteven be eftabliſbed, that thy name may be magnified for ever, ſaying, TheLORD of hoſts is the God of Iſrael, even a God to Iſrael b, and /et the houſe of David thy ſervant be eſtabliſhed before- thee.
h Or, The Lord of Hoſts, the God of Iſrael, is a God to Iſrael, i. e He is really to his People that which he hath ſtiled himſelf, heir God, having taken ſuch care ofthem, and ſhewed ſuch Mercy and Truth to them, as did fully anſwer thar Title.
+ Heb. 25 For thou, O my God, | haſt told thy ſervant that
uw thou wilt build him an houſe : —_— thy ſervanc
| vere? 7/7 hath found 31 bis heart to pray before thee.
=_ 26 And now, LORD, ( thou art God, and haſt
promiſed this goodneſs unto thy ſervant. )
27 Now therefore || let it pleaſe thee to bleſs the houſe of thy ſervant, that it may be before thee for ever : for thou bleiſeſt, O LORD, and it ſhaft be bletled for ever.
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David ſubdurth the Philiftines and the Moabites : ſmiteth Hadarezer and the Syrians, | 8. Tou ſendeth Hadoram with preſents t0 bleſs David the preſents and ſpoil David dedicated to God, 9g 12, he putteth gariſons in Ed'm, 13. Davids Officers, 14 7. ;
Ne” after this * it came to paſs, that David ſmote
Heb.
baneſſcs.
| Heb. eatneſſes
d teryible MINgs.
| pleaſed thee
*2 Sam. 8,
| 2, &c. the Philiſtines a, and ſubdued them, and took | + Heb. Gath and her +towns out of the hands of the Philiſtines. | daughter, , Allthis Chapter is explained on 2 Sam. 8. 2 Andhe ſmote Moab : and the Moabites became | Davids ſervants, and brought gifts. | 8 3 And David ſmote || Hadarezer king of Zobah unto 2 Sam. | Humath, as he weat to eſtabliſh his F dominion by the 8. 3. river Euphrates. * Heb. 4 And David took from him a thouſand chariots, ng 4. r. and ſeven thouſand horſemen, and twenty thouſand footmen : David alſo houghed all the chariot-hor/es, but reſerved of them an hundred chariots. + Heb. 5 And when the Syrians of F Damaſcus came to
Darmeſck. Hadarezzr king of Zobah, David flew of the Syrians | two and twenty thouſand men.
6 Then David put gariſons in Syria-damaſcus, and the Syrians became Davids ſervants, a:d brought gifts. Thus the LORD preſerved David whitherſoever he went,
7 And David took the ſhields cf gold that were on the ſervants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jeru- falem. x |