Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 23:25
For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever:
25. that they may dwell ] R.V. and he dwelleth. More literally, and he hath taken up his abode, LXX. .
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
1Ch 23:25
For David said, The Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto His people.
The rest of the people of God
I. In the mysterious polity of the people of Israel spiritual and temporal blessings were so closely allied that the same language might naturally be employed to signify either.
II. It is not unwarrantable for us to conjecture that in the joyous utterance contained in the text David insinuated profounder truths than lie on the surface of his words.
III. If there remaineth a rest to the people of God, it becomes us to secure this great blessing as the sole or chief object of existence.
IV. Rest and peace must fall upon a Christian spirit.
1. From its devotion to Christ Himself, and its devoted imitation of His pure and perfect example.
2. By the elevating tendency of the singleness of the object of his hope. Those who have many debts often feel it a relief to exchange them all for a single creditor; he whose whole heart is bent on reaching a single point leaves all around him on his way in equal and complete indifference. God is one; let our affections but partake of the unity of that object, and we shall have reached the pathway of real and imperishable rest.
3. From the very nature of the Christian affections.
4. From its hope being anchored in a future world. To support, still more to exalt us, heaven must mingle with earth. To direct a vessel upon the ocean there must be two elements at work, the air must modify the agency of the water; to set a vessel at rest there must be more elements than one employed, and the earth must afford the means of resisting the breezes and the sea. Such is the position in the voyage of this life. The earthly and the heavenly elements must combine, or we are powerless. Confined to the single element of our corrupted nature, we are the sport of every accident, we have no rules for our navigation. But they who join to the human nature the higher element, they have a power that guides them to the everlasting haven. To have the great object of our thoughts placed beyond the chances of human life is to place ourselves beyond them. (W. A. Butler.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
For David said,…. As a reason why he ordered a new account to be taken:
the Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto his people: from all their enemies round about, and settled rest in the land, so that there was no danger of being carried captive, as they were time after time in the days of the Judges, and whereby they became more numerous:
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever; where the temple would always continue, and not be removed, as the ark and tabernacle had been, and where all Israel would appear three times in the year continually.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(25) For David said.This verse seems to assign a reason for the extension of the Levitical census.
The Lord . . . hath given rest unto his people.So that they no longer wander from pasture to pasture in the wilderness, nor are any more oppressed by foreign tyrants as in the days of the judges.
That they may dwell.Rather, And He (the Lord) hath settled in Jerusalem for ever. (Comp. 1Ch. 17:5, I have gone from tent to tent.) Now Jehovah has chosen Zion to be His eternal dwelling-place (Psa. 132:13.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
This verse confirms the thought with which we closed our observation on the former. And if we read it in a gospel sense, and with an eye to the ever blessed Jesus, is it not delightful? The Lord God of Israel hath indeed given rest unto his people, for Jesus is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing. Reader, oh! for grace to say, as one of old did, concerning our Jesus; return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Isa 28:12 ; Psa 116:7 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
The Lord: 1Ch 22:18, 2Sa 7:1, 2Sa 7:11
that they may dwell in Jerusalem: or, and he dwelleth in Jerusalem, 1Ki 8:13, 1Ki 8:27, Psa 9:11, Psa 68:16, Psa 68:18, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14, Psa 135:21, Isa 8:18, Joe 3:21, Zec 8:3, 2Co 6:16, Col 2:9
Reciprocal: Deu 12:9 – General Rev 7:15 – dwell