_DAVID, HAVING ENUMERATED ALL HIS GIFTS DESIGNED FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, EXHORTS THE PRINCES AND PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR OFFERINGS, WHICH THEY DO WILLINGLY. DAVID ACKNOWLEDGES THAT NOTHING IS GIVEN TO GOD, BUT WHAT HAD BEEN BEFORE RECEIVED FROM HIM. SOLOMON IS A SECOND TIME ANOINTED. DAVID'S DE... [ Continue Reading ]
THINE, O LORD, IS THE GREATNESS, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, &C.— The Talmudists paraphrase this and the next verse as follows: _"Thine, O Lord, is the greatness,_ for thou createdst the world; _and the power,_ for thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, and carriedst them through the Red Sea, _... [ Continue Reading ]
ANOINTED HIM UNTO THE LORD, TO BE THE CHIEF GOVERNOR— _And anointed him chief governor for the Lord: 1:_e. the governor whom the Lord had chosen to command his people: for the theocracy still continued, and the kings only reigned in the name and under the authority of God, the supreme lord and ruler... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TIMES THAT WENT OVER HIM— The _transactions_ are to be understood, which are usually denoted by _the times,_ and which shew what was the nature of the times; a mode of speaking which is common to almost all languages. _The kingdoms of the countries,_ is rendered by Houbigant and the LXX, _th... [ Continue Reading ]