2 Samuel 5:10

And David went on, and grew great,.... In honour and wealth, in fame and reputation, in subduing his enemies, obtaining conquests over them, and enlarging his dominions:

and the Lord God of hosts,…

If Salem, the place of which Melchizedec was king, was Jerusalem (as seems probable from Psa 76:2), it was famous in Abraham's time. Joshua, in his time, found it the chief city of the south part of…

And David went on, and grew great = "So David waxed greater and greater" in Chron. The E. V. obliterates the identity of the Hebrew. See Introd. p. 22, note[99]

[99] This verbal coincidence is…