1 Chronicles 17:1-15

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 17:1

Now it came to pass - See every thing recorded in this chapter amply detailed in the notes on 2 Samuel 7:1 ; (note), etc. read more

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 17:1

EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Samuel 7:1-29 ; and the parallel is for the most part very close. The purport of the two accounts may be said to be identical, while the variations of some few words and sentences just suffice to indicate the somewhat different objects of the two writers, and the very different time when our compiler was having recourse to the common authority. The "good" purpose which was in David's heart is, like many other good purposes, obstructed by the... 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

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