The key of David; that is, the key of the house of David. Compare Isaiah 22:22, from which passage the language is borrowed, but with a far higher application. To have the key of David's house, is to exercise supreme dominion there, which is expressed by the acts of opening and shutting at will; in other words, it is to be supreme on David's throne. Compare Luke 1:32-33 : "The Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever"; where the "house of Jacob" is the true spiritual Israel, embracing all who have through faith become "Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise," Galatians 3:29.

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Old Testament