John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house be not so with God ,.... So bright, and flourishing, and prosperous as the government of the just ruler before described; or is not "right" F13 לא כן "non recta", Cocceius. with God, meaning his family, in which great sins were committed, and great disorders and confusions brought into it, as the cases of Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah showed; or "not firm" or "stable" F14 "Non est re firma", Vitringa in Jesaiam, c. xi. 1. , through the rebellion of one, the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 23:1-7
We have here the last will and testament of king David, or a codicil annexed to it, after he had settled the crown upon Solomon and his treasures upon the temple which was to be built. The last words of great and good men are thought worthy to be in a special manner remarked and remembered. David would have those taken notice of, and added either to his Psalms (as they are here to that in the foregoing chapter) or to the chronicles of his reign. Those words especially in 2 Sam. 23:5; though... read more