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John Trapp · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Trapp on forever - To be king over Israel for ever, that is, for a long time; and in regard of Christ, forever. See Lk 1:32-33 - "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” For He has chosen Judah to be a leader - Again David seems to be alluding to the future, for he was of the tribe of Judah, but ultimately One would come from Who would be "the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah," the Messiah, the greater Son of David (Rev 5:5+). And back in Genesis 49:10 we recall the prophecy that “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh (MESSIAH) comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." Swindoll - What is David doing here? He is focusing on what God did allow him to do. It is so easy for us to be disappointed, to get so distraught over a frustrated desire that we forget the things God has given us, the good things He has accomplished through our efforts and through our hands. During the closing years of his life, rather than pining away over this unfulfilled desire, David focused on the good things God had given him. I exclaim once again, what a man! He really looked at life from God’s point of view. (Borrow David : a man of passion & destiny) And in the house of Judah, my father's house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel - David reiterates his choosing as king over all Israel was because God had chosen the tribe of Judah and the family of Jesse. In short, he was not king because he was good or better than anyone else, but simply because it was God's sovereign will and choice that he be the king. There is no hint of pride in David's declaration, for he understands this is all of God's doing, not his. Jack Hays - Out of all the tribe of Judah, the house of Jesse had been chosen. Out of all the sons of Jesse, David had been chosen, and now out of all his “many sons”, Solomon had been chosen. (This lineage was never stated of any subsequent king.) Judah was not the firstborn and yet he was chosen; Jesse was a nonentity who “went among men for an old man in the days of Saul”, a man who was the owner of just “those few sheep” (1 Sam 17:12, 28), and yet he was chosen. Messiah would “come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots” (Isa 11:1). David was the despised youngest son of Jesse, and yet he was chosen; “he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel” (RV). Solomon was the fruit of a union that should never have been and yet he was chosen. No wonder Scripture says of the sovereign God of the universe, “how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Rom 11:33). (What the Bible Teaches – 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles) Payne - The divine choice had been revealed through a process of progressive elimination: from the whole of national "Israel," through the tribe of "Judah," down to the Davidic "family" in particular (Gen 28:14; 35:10-11; 49:10; 1 Sam 16:1-3; 1 Chronicles 17:16-17, 23-27). (Ibid)
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Trapp on chariot - “So called, because God sat between them (Psalm 99:1), rode upon them (Psalm 18:10); the angels – represented by those cherubims – are called the chariots of God (Psalm 68:17); and the Hebrews have a saying, that such as saw God of old saw only Merchavah velo harocheb, the chariot in which God rode, but not the rider in it. It is a good note also that is given here by some expositors – viz., that by this chariot of the cherubims God gave his people to understand that his presence in the ark was not so fixed among them, but that would leave them, and ride clean away from them, if they should thereunto provoke him by their sins.”