David stood up; partly out of reverence to God and his word, which was the matter of the following discourse; and partly out of respect to this great and honourable assembly. My brethren; so he calls the princes and chief rulers, both because they had a share with him, though under him in the government; and in compliance with the Divine command, that the king should not be lifted up above his brethren, Deuteronomy 17:20. An house of rest for the ark; a place where it might be fixed, and no more removed from place to place, as it had been. And for the footstool; the word and is here put expositively for by the footstool, &c., he means the ark.

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