1 Chronicles 22:9

Shall be born. — Is about to be born (participle).

Who shall be. — He (emphatic) shall become a man of rest, opposed to “a man of war,” such as was David (2 Samuel 17:8; 1 Chronicles 28:3). The phrase is further explained by what follows.

And I will give him rest from all his enemies round about — i.e., the surrounding peoples, who are his natural foes, seeing that they were brought under the yoke by his father, will acquiesce in his dominion. The same words are used, in a somewhat different sense. about David (2 Samuel 7:1); and in 1 Kings 5:4 Solomon applies them to himself. (Comp. also Proverbs 16:7.)

Solomon. — The emphatic word. (See 2 Samuel 12:24.) The Hebrew is Shĕlômô; for which the LXX. gives Sălômôn; Syriac, Shĕleimûn; Arabic, Suleimân (same as “Solyman the Magnificent”). The original form of the word had the final n which we see in the cognate languages. The Assyrian Shalman (in Shalmaneser) and the Moabite Salamanu seem to be identical. The Vulg. has Pacificus (peace-maker). (Comp. the Greek Irenæeus, the German Friederich, our “Frederick,” peaceful.) Sŏlŏmon is the New Testament spelling.

It would seem that the original name of Solomon was Jedidiah (2 Samuel 12:25), but posterity, looking back with fond regret to the palmy days of his reign, remembered him only as Shelomoh, “The Peaceful.” (See on 1 Chronicles 20:5.)

And I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. — Literally, and peace and quietness will I put upon Israel, &c. His name will be a Divine augury of the character of his reign.

Quietness (shèqet). — Only here; but compare the cognate verb (Judges 5:31 : “had rest”).