John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:1-27
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1 Chronicles 17:2-15 Nasb
John Gill
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 17:5
But have gone from tent to tent - "I have transferred my tabernacle from Gilgal to Nob, from Nob to Shiloh, and from Shiloh to Gibeon." - Targum and Jarchi. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 17:9
Neither shall the children of wickedness - They shall no more be brought into servitude as they were in the time they sojourned in Egypt. This is what is here referred to. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 17:12
I will establish his throne for ever - David was a type of Christ; and concerning him the prophecy is literally true. See Isaiah 9:7 , where there is evidently the same reference. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 17:13
I will not take my mercy away from him - I will not cut off his family from the throne, as I did that of his predecessor Saul. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:2
This verse gives Nathan's response on the spur of the moment. And that it was not radically wrong from a prophet may be inferred from the stress afterwards laid upon the acceptableness to God of what had been in the heart of David to do. Even with God, silence would sometimes be understood by a prophet to be equivalent to assent. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:3
The express word of God came, however, that same night. It proved to be an overruling word. But it brought with it the point of a fresh and most welcome new departure for David. We might glean here by the way a suggestion of the beneficent operation of express revelation, superseding the thought, the method, the reason of man. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:4
Thou shalt not build. The Hebrew marks the personal pronoun here as emphatic, "Not thou shalt build," i.e. but some one else. In the parallel this prohibition is conveyed by that interrogative particle which expects the answer No, and may be thus translated: "Is it thou shalt build for me," etc.? read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:4-15
These verses are the unfolding to David of the magnificent and far-stretching purposes of God's grace towards him in his son Solomon and his descendants for ever. The revelation is made by the mouth of Nathan. read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:1-15
Let us observe here, I. How desirous and solicitous good people should be to serve the interests of God's kingdom in the world, to the utmost of their capacity. David could not be easy in a house of cedar while the ark was lodged within curtains, 1 Chron. 17:1. The concerns of the public should always be near our hearts. What pleasure can we take in our own prosperity if we see not the good of Jerusalem? When David is advanced to wealth and power see what his cares and projects are. Not, ?What... read more