CONTENTS This chapter contains some of the last words of David, and as such cannot but be very interesting. To these words of David is added a list of David's worthies, his mighty men. 2 Samuel 23:1 (1) В¶ Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was rais... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. (3) The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. If the Reader carefully attends to those three distinct titles, and yet all one and the same, by which D... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Who can this be but JESUS? Of whom, among the sons of men, could it ever be said that he was as a morning without clouds?... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. How natural and proper was it for David, when speaking of JESUS, and his salvation, to make a... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: (7) But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place. What a contrast is here drawn! And i... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) В¶ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. (9) And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS How sweet are the last words of dying saints. And how doubly so when they are sanctified to lead to JESUS. Reader! amidst all the trying dispensations in the life of the patriarch David; yet observe what confidence in covenant engagements can do, to give a soul comfort and holy joy. Dav... [ Continue Reading ]