_A.M. 3000. B.C. 1004._ This Psalm is supposed by most commentators to have been written by Solomon, when he had built the temple, and fulfilled what had been designed by his father David. Probably it was intended to be sung, and was sung, at the dedication of the temple, of which, Psalms 132:8, he... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lord, remember David_ Thy covenant with David; or David's eminent piety and zeal for thy service; _and all his afflictions_ All his sufferings for thy sake, all the solicitude of his mind, all his hard and wearisome labours for thy service and glory. _How he sware and vowed_ Made a solemn vow, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Surely I will not_, &c. As if he had said, I value not my own private domestic enjoyments and accommodations, in comparison of the settlement of God's public worship. “He was so highly concerned,” says Dr. Hammond, “for the service of God, that, having built himself a house, (1Ch 15:1; 1 Chronicles... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lo, we have heard of it_ The ark, or of the place or habitation for the Lord last mentioned; _at Ephratah_ That is, at Shiloh, in the tribe of Ephraim, there they were told it had been, but it was gone; they _found it_ at last _in the fields of the wood_ That is, in Kirjath-jearim, which signifies,... [ Continue Reading ]
_We will go into his tabernacles_ Seeing the ark is now fixed in a certain place, we will go to it more generally and constantly than formerly we did. _We will worship at his footstool_ As subjects and supplicants, prostrating ourselves, with humble reverence, before the Divine Majesty, which we too... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arise, O Lord, to thy rest_, &c. See notes on Numbers 10:35; 2 Chronicles 6:41. _Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness_ Not only with those outward sacerdotal garments of glory and beauty, which thou hast appointed for them, but, especially, with the inward ornaments of righteousness and tr... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord has sworn in truth_ Not falsely or deceitfully, as men sometimes do, but sincerely and faithfully, what he will inviolably observe and fulfil, as the next clause expounds this. _Of the fruit of thy body _ Of some of thy posterity, _will I set upon thy throne_ See notes on 2 Samuel 7:12; an... [ Continue Reading ]
_For the Lord hath chosen Zion_ Taken either for the whole mountain, whereof Zion and Moriah were two parts, or for Jerusalem, which was, in a great part, built upon mount Zion, whence it is often called _Zion_, as has been frequently observed. _This is my rest for ever _ Not my residence only for a... [ Continue Reading ]
_There_ In Jerusalem, the seat of the kingdom, and the only place of my presence and worship in the world; _will I make the horn of David to bud_ His power and glory to flourish and increase, and to descend to his posterity. _I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed_ A successor or succession to con... [ Continue Reading ]