If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
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Gill's Exposition
This is my rest for ever,.... The rest of my majesty, as the Targum; the place of his rest: and this being for ever shows that not Mount Zion literally, nor the temple, are meant; but the church and…
Barnes' Notes
If thy children will keep my covenant ... - This was the condition implied in the promise - that they were to keep the law of God, and to serve and obey him. If they did not, they could not, of…
These are precious promises, confirmed by an oath, that the heirs of them might have strong consolation, Heb 6:17, Heb 6:18. It is all one whether we take them as pleas urged in the prayer or as…
Cambridge Bible
If thysons will keep The condition of the literal fulfilment of the promise is implied in 2Sa 7:14, and explicitly stated in 1Ki 8:25. In Psa 89:30 ff. the thought is developed, that man's…
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