1 Chronicles 17:7-15

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:1-27

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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 17:4-15

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:7

I took thee . (So 1 Samuel 16:11 , 1 Samuel 16:12 ; 2 Samuel 7:8 ; Psalms 78:1-72 :80.) The sheepcote . The Hebrew נָזֶה strictly signifies a resting or place of resting. Hence the habitation of men or of animals, and in particular the pasture in which flocks lie down and rest ( Psalms 23:2 , plural construction; Job 5:24 ; Hosea 9:13 ; Jeremiah 23:3 ; Jeremiah 49:20 ). The sheepcote was sometimes a tower, with roughly built high wall, exposed to the sky at the top,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:8

And have made thee . This may be rendered and will make thee ; in which ease the promise to David commences with this rather than the following clause. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:9

All the verbs of this verse are in the same tense as those of the foregoing verse, which are correctly translated. For an expression similar to the last clause of the verse, Neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, may be found in Psalms 89:22 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 17:10

This verse should read on continuously with the preceding, as far as to the word "enemies." The time here denoted will stretch from the people's occupation of the laud to the death of Saul, as the expression, "at the beginning," in 1 Chronicles 17:9 , will point to the experience of Egyptian oppression. Will build thee an house ; i.e. will guarantee thee an unfailing line of descendants. read more

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