thoſe words, and they made Solomon King, &c. are, and for the pare« ticle, then, that is confetled by all to be often uſed at large and n= d:finitely for,oboxt,or after chat 1me. b i.e. To be King after Davids death, c Of which the laſt Note but one.
23 Then Solomon ſat on the throne of the LORD d as king 'in ſtead of David his father, and proſpered, ;and all Iſrael obeyed him.
d 7. e. On the Throne of Iſrael, which is called the Throne of the Lord,cither more generally as all Thrones are the Lords,by whom kings reign, Prov 8:15 and Magiſtrats are ordained, Rom: 31:1,2. or more, ſpecially and peculiarly 3 either 1. becauſe the Lord himſelf was in a peculiar manner the King and Governour of Ifrael, not only in the time of the Judges, bur afterward, Pſal. 44. 4. and 89: 18 and 149: 2. 1/a:'33: 22. or, 2, becauſe it was the Throne of Ch: iſt the Loid, whoſe Vic-gerents David and Solomon, and their Succcſlors were,for whom this Throne was reſerved, and by whom it was to be eſtablithed and enjoyed for ever, Luke 2: 32, 33. Or, 3. The Tarons of th? Lord 1s put for, The Throne of the People of the Lord, by a conciſe & ſhort manner of Speech, which it frequent in the Hebrew Language, as when rhe Key of David is put for the Key of the houſe of David ; and the Mountain of the Lord, for the Mount ain of the Lords Houſe : Or 4. Becauſe this Throne fell to Solemon not by right of inheritance, for he had elder Brethren, but by the ſpecial Appointment and Gift of the Lord» And ſo this, of the Lord, is the Genitive Cauſe of the Efficient, as the Learned call it, and ſignifies, which the Lors gave him,
24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the ſons likewiſe of king David + ſubmitted chem- {elves unto Selomon e the king.
e Heb, Put their Hands under Solomon, i. e, They owned him for their King, and themſelves for his Subje&s, and ſware Fealty £9 him ; which poſſibly they now did after the ancient mannner wit that Ceremony of putting their Hands under his Thigh, which was uſed in Swearing, Gen, 24: 2: & 47: 29. or at leaſt the thing is fig* nified by a Phraſe taken from that pratice formerly uſed,tho now neglefted; it being uſual in all nations and Languages to ſignific preſent things by Phraſes taken from Ancient Cuitoms-
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Word Xing, being oft uſed. in a large ſenſe for any Governour, 26 Thus David the fon of Jeile, reigned over all
Tſrael h, | h This Sacred Writer having mentioned the Anointing of Solomor: to be King, v.22. and upon that occaſion proceeded to give a fur- ther Account of Solomons Attual Settlement in his Kingdom, and of his proſperous and glorious Management of it, v.23,24,25+ he now rTerurns to his main and proper Buſineſs,to give an Account of the Cloſe of Davids Reign and Life. Thrs, i.e. 1n manner hitherto exe preſſed, David reigned, &Cc., , 27 And the time that he reigned over Iſrael, was King. * forty years : * ſeven years reigned he in Hebron,and ,n thirty and thres years reigned he 1n Jeruſalem, : +5m's'5 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days z, C 3+: riches and Honour 3: and Solomon his fon reigned in his ſtead.
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being now weary of his Life, and deſiring to be with GOD. 0
behold they are written in the || book of Samuel the ſer, and in the} book of Nathan the prophet, and in? Heb. the book of Gad the ſeer &.
which were written part by Srzxel, | and part by Nathan and Gad- Oc,in the Annals or Chronicles of that Kingdom, which were writ- ten by Nathan and Gad,who were not only Prophets, but Hiſtorio«= graphers or Annaliſts ; out of which either they or ſome other Prophets rook out by the direQion of Gods Spirit ſuch Paffages as were moſt important and uſeful to the Church and to the in ſucceeding Ages,
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his God was with him, and magnified him * exceedingly.
s Or, cſtabl;jhed, after his Seditious Brother Adonijah and his Par- tifans were ſuppreſſed ; and, he was received with the univerſal Conſent and Joy of his Princes and People.
2 Then Solomon ſpake 6 unto all Iſrael], to the cap- tains of thouſands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governour inall Iſrael, || the chief of the fithers.
b To wit, concerning his Intention of going to G:beon, and that they ſhould attend him thither, as the next Verſe ſhews.
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2 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place'c that as at * Gibeon, for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moſes the ſervant of the LORD had made in the wil- derneſs.
c Upon which the Tabernacle was placed ; whence it is called the great high place, 1 Kings 3. 4.