16<\/strong>. thy kingdom shall be stablished<\/em> ] Better, thy kingdom shall be made sure.<\/strong> Two different words are translated “shall be stablished” in this verse. The second corresponds to that in 2Sa 7:13<\/em><\/span>: the first is that rendered in 1Sa 2:35<\/span>, “a sure<\/em> house, and in Isa 55:3<\/span>, “the sure<\/em> mercies of David.”<\/p>\n before thee<\/em> ] The explanation that “David is regarded as seeing all his descendants pass before him in a vision,” is forced, and it is best to follow the LXX. in reading before me.<\/strong> This reading moreover seems to be required by 2Sa 7:26<\/em><\/span> ; 2Sa 7:29<\/em><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n 2Sa 7:16-17<\/span><\/p>\n Thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The advantages of civil government contrasted with the blessings of the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n A long tenure of blessing<\/strong><\/p>\n If a man might have a cottage on a hundred years <\/strong>lease, he would prize it much more than the possession of a palace for a day. Of course he would; and this it is which adds so much preciousness to the joys of heaven, for they are eternal. The pleasures of this world, however bright they seem, are but for this one day of life, which is already half over. If they were all they profess to be, and a thousand times more, they would not be worthy to be mentioned in comparison with pleasures for evermore at Gods right hand. (C. H. Spurgeon<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Christs reign foreshadowed<\/strong><\/p>\n Apart from the fact that the kingdom in the form in which Davids descendants ruled over it, has long since crumbled away, the large words of the promise must be regarded as inflated and exaggerated, if, by for ever they only mean for long generations. A seed, or line of perishable men, can only last for ever if it closes in a Person who is not subject to <\/strong>the law of mortality. Unless we can with our hearts rejoicingly confess, Thou art the King of glory, O Christ. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, we do not pierce to the full understanding of Nathans prophecy. All the glorious prerogatives shadowed in it were but partially fulfilled in Israels monarchs. Their failures and their successes, their sins and their virtues, equally declared them to be but shadowy forerunners of him in whom all that they at the best imperfectly aimed at and possessed is completely and for ever fulfilled. They were prophetic persons by their office, and pointed on to him. (A. Maclaren, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Before thee; <\/B>thine eyes in some sort beholding it; for he lived to see his wise and godly son Solomon actually placed in the throne, with great reputation and general applause, 1Ki 1:39<\/span>,40<\/span>, which was in itself a good presage of the continuance of the kingdom in his family; and being considered, together with the infallible certainty of Gods promise to him and his for ever, of the accomplishment whereof this was an earnest, gave him good assurance thereof; especially considering that he had his eyes and thoughts upon the Messia, Psa 90:1<\/span>, &c., whose day he saw<\/I> by faith, as Abraham did, Joh 8:56<\/span>, and whom he knew that God would raise out of the fruit of his loins to sit on his throne<\/I>, as is affirmed, Act 2:30<\/span>, and that for ever: and so the eternity of his kingdom is rightly said to be before him. The LXX. and Syriac read before me<\/I>, which is a usual phrase, which makes no great variation in the Hebrew text. <\/P> <\/p>\n And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee<\/strong>,…. That is, both his family and his government should be perpetuated, or he should always have one of his family to sit upon his throne; the accomplishment of which, in the beginning of it, he saw with his eyes in his son Solomon, and with an eye of faith in his greater Son the Messiah, in whom only these words will have their complete fulfilment; and so Abarbinel says this vision or prophecy is explained by some of the days of the Messiah; and this house and kingdom, in 1Ch 17:14<\/span>; are called by the Lord “my” house, and “my” kingdom:<\/p>\n thy throne shall be established for ever<\/strong>; which is a repetition of the same in other words for the confirmation of it.<\/p>\n (16) Established.<\/strong>Two different Hebrew words are so translated in this verse. The first is the same word as that used in 2Sa. 7:12-13<\/span>, while the second is translated sure <\/em>in 1Sa. 2:35<\/span>; Isa. 55:3<\/span>, and would be better rendered here also made sure.<\/em><\/p>\n Before thee.<\/strong>The LXX. has unnecessarily changed this to before me. <\/em>The thought is, that David is now made the head of the line in which shall be fulfilled the primeval promise The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpents head. This was originally given simply to the human race (Gen. 3:15<\/span>); then restricted to the nation descended from Abraham (Gen. 22:18<\/span>, &c); then limited to the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10<\/span>, comp. Eze. 21:27<\/span>), and now its fulfilment is promised in the family of David.<\/p>\n 16<\/strong>. <\/strong> For ever for ever <\/strong> of all the words of promise that fell on David’s ears these were the most charming. They find repeated utterance in his prayer, ( 2Sa 7:19 ; 2Sa 7:25<\/span>; 2Sa 7:29<\/span>,) often in the Psalms, (Psa 18:50<\/span>; Psa 89:29<\/span>,) and even echo in the angel’s words of salutation to the mother of our Lord. Luk 1:32-33<\/span>. By them we see that this message of Nathan to David was largely a Messianic prophecy.<\/p>\n 2Sa 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.<\/p>\n Ver. 16. Thy throne shall be established for ever.<\/strong> ] It shall, it shall – take my word for it: – in Christ, howsoever, who shall reign as God-man throughout all eternity.<\/p>\n thee. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read “Me”. <\/p>\n The Davidic Covenant <\/p>\n The Davidic Covenant 2Sa 7:8-17. <\/p>\n This covenant, upon which the glorious kingdom of Christ “of the seed of David according to the flesh” is to be founded, secures: <\/p>\n (1) A Davidic “house”; i.e. posterity, family <\/p>\n (2) A “throne”; i.e. royal authority <\/p>\n (3) A kingdom; i.e. sphere of rule <\/p>\n (4) In perpetuity; “for ever” <\/p>\n (5) And this fourfold covenant has but one condition: disobedience in the Davidic family is to be visited with chastisement; but not to the abrogation of the covenant 2Sa 7:15; Psa 89:20-37; Isa 24:5; Isa 54:3. <\/p>\n The chastisement fell; first in the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam, and, finally, in the captivities. 2Ki 25:1-7. Since that time but one King of the Davidic family has been crowned at Jerusalem and He was crowned with thorns. But the Davidic Covenant confirmed to David by the oath of Jehovah, and renewed to Mary by the angel Gabriel, is immutable Psa 89:30-37 and the Lord God will yet give to that thorn-crowned One “the throne of his father David.”; Luk 1:31-33; Act 2:29-32; Act 15:14-17. <\/p>\n See, for the other seven covenants: <\/p>\n EDENIC, (See Scofield “Gen 1:28”) ADAMIC, See Scofield “Gen 3:15” NOAHIC, See Scofield “Gen 9:1” ABRAHAMIC, See Scofield “Gen 15:18” MOSAIC, See Scofield “Exo 19:25” PALESTINIAN, See Scofield “Deu 30:3” NEW, See Scofield “Heb 8:8” <\/p>\n 2Sa 7:13, Gen 49:10, 2Ki 19:34, 1Ch 17:13, 1Ch 17:14, Psa 45:6, Psa 72:5, Psa 72:17-19, Psa 89:36, Psa 89:37, Isa 9:7, Dan 2:44, Dan 7:14, Mat 16:18, Luk 1:32, Luk 1:33, Joh 12:34, Heb 1:8, Rev 11:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 13:14 – the Lord 1Sa 25:28 – the Lord 2Sa 5:12 – David 2Sa 7:15 – But my 1Ki 2:4 – fail 1Ki 8:24 – thou spakest 1Ki 9:5 – I will establish 1Ki 11:13 – Howbeit 1Ki 11:36 – David 1Ki 11:38 – build the 1Ki 12:16 – now see 1Ch 14:2 – the Lord 2Ch 6:5 – neither chose 2Ch 10:16 – David 2Ch 23:3 – as the Lord Psa 89:28 – mercy Pro 12:7 – the house Pro 27:24 – doth Isa 7:2 – the house Isa 16:5 – in the Jer 17:25 – sitting Mat 1:1 – the son of David<\/p>\n 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be {g} established for ever.<\/p>\n (g) This was begun in Solomon, as a figure, but accomplished in Christ.<\/p>\n And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee: thy throne shall be established forever. 16. thy kingdom shall be stablished ] Better, thy kingdom shall be made sure. Two different words are translated “shall be stablished” in this verse. The second corresponds to that in 2Sa 7:13: the first is that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 7:16”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>The first and primary advantage expected from every well-constituted human government is security and the sense of security. The depravity of our nature has introduced such a universal selfishness and rapacity among mankind is their natural state, that men in every age and country have been convinced of the expediency and necessity of attempting to organise some form of government for the purpose of their common security. While every individual is left to exert his own power as he chooses, none can be secure either in his property or person: it becomes absolutely indispensable, therefore, if men would escape the intolerable evils of such a state, to collect and embody this scattered and uncertain force of the many, in some public depository of power: such a provision is necessary for the protection and <\/strong>preservation of every community. Hence almost all nations, even the most uncivilised, have attempted some constitution of this kind, however rude, for the prevention or the redress of those injuries to which the subjects were continually liable by the passions of our nature. But the utmost degree of personal security that can be enjoyed under any form of civil power, is a most imperfect shadow of the safety which Jesus Christ bestows upon the subjects of his spiritual reign. Until a man submits to His mediatorial authority, he remains exposed to unutterable evils.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The second benefit expected from human governments is liberty. So far as this advantage is consistent with the former, or with the public security, the more largely it is enjoyed the better. But, suppose the utmost possible degree of civil liberty enjoyed, what is it in comparison with that spiritual, real freedom, which Jesus Christ confers? The former is, at the best, only an external, circumstantial blessing; it does not enter into the inner man. But if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed: where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the only true liberty. The Christian is the genuine freeman, and none beside is such except in name.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The next advantage derived from a good government is plenty. To secure this advantage, you are aware that there are arrangements in nature, in a great measure independent of human institutions, and beyond the control of human policy. But perhaps, in this respect, there has been often much error on the part of those in power. But in the kingdom of Jesus Christ there exists an infinite plenty of all the provisions that can be desired for all the wants of the soul. None are neglected here: the poorest may be enriched beyond the most splendid opulence of this world, even with the unsearchable riches of Christ; as the apostles, though poor, could make many rich,–though they had nothing, they possessed all things. For in Jesus Christ all fulness dwells, for the supply of spiritual destitution.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>A tendency to improvement in its social institutions, is a fourth benefit which ought to accompany every well-ordered government. The best of these institutions are such as will be at once permanent and progressive, by their intrinsic wisdom and excellence,–by their adaptation to all the varying circumstances of the nation,–by their power of providing for unseen and possible emergencies: they will gradually rise from security to convenience, and then exalt convenience into ornament–into just refinement and diffused illumination: such has been the aim of the greatest legislators. But the difference between the most moral and the most flagitious of natural characters, is less than the difference that subsists between the subjects of Jesus Christ and the children of this world; because the latter is the difference between the spiritually dead and living.<\/p>\n
V. <\/strong>The fifth and last requisite of a well-constituted government is stability: this is the crown of all its other advantages. Nothing can be wanting to such a reign but that it should last: and this is what the text <\/strong>emphatically expresses–Thy throne shall he established for ever: as the Psalmist says of the Messiah, He shall reign as long as the sun and moon endure. In this the kingdom of David was an emblem, however faint, of that which would be <\/strong>erected by Jesus Christ; wonderfully preserved as was the throne of Judah, while the greatest monarchies were marked by perpetual vicissitudes: the kings of Israel were ever changing in their line, while the descendants of David maintained <\/strong>a direct succession, (R. Hall<\/em>, <\/em><\/strong>M. A.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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