Ezekiel 37:25 - Exposition

The phrase, my servant David (comp. Ezekiel 34:23 , Ezekiel 34:24 ; Jeremiah 33:21 , Jeremiah 33:22 , Jeremiah 33:26 ; Psalms 78:70 ; Psalms 89:3 , Psalms 89:20 ; Psalms 144:10 ), goes back to the Messianic promise of 2 Samuel 7:12-16 , and cannot be satisfactorily explained as signifying the Davidic house (Smend), or as pointing to "a line of true rulers, each faithfully representing the ideal David as the faithful Ruler, the true Shepherd of his people" (Plumptre, on Ezekiel 34:23 ), inasmuch as Israel, after Ezekiel's day, never possessed any such line of rulers, and certainly no such line continued forever . The only feasible exegesis is that which understands Jehovah's servant David to be Messiah, or Jesus Christ, of whom the writer to the Hebrews ( Ezekiel 1:8 ) says. "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever."