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And it shall come to pass.--In accordance with the promise, "The Lord will build thee an house" (1Chronicles 17:10). The phrase is wanting in Samuel, and should probably be supplied, with LXX.

Be expired.--Are fulfilled (perfect; Samuel has imperfect tense).

That thou must go to be with thy fathers.--Literally, to go with thy fathers--an unusual expression, for which Samuel has the ordinary, "and thou lie down with thy fathers." (Comp. 1Kings 2:2 : "Go the way of all the earth.")

Which shall be (shall arise or come, Genesis 17:16) of thy sons.--Samuel has the more original, "which shall go forth from thy bowels." The chronicler has paraphrased this, to suit the taste of a later age.

His kingdom.--Heb., malk-tho--a later word than the synonym in Samuel (mamlakhto).

Verse 11. - The promise is now, not to "David and his seed," but to David personally. The verse contains, no doubt, the original of the Apostle Peter's quotation (Acts 2:29, 30; see also Acts 13:34; Luke 1:32, 33). The last clause of this verse has Solomon, for the object of its pronoun "his."

17:1-27 David's purposes; God's gracious promises. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 7. See what is there said upon it. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word's sake, is here said to be, "for thy servant's sake," ver. 19. Jesus Christ is both the Word of God, Re 19:13, and the Servant of God, Isa 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.See Chapter Introduction