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Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 17:14

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1 Chronicles17:14

14 But I will settle him in mine house , and in my Kingdom for ever, and his throne shall be established for evermore.

In my Dwelling-place, either 1. in Ierusalem, the place where God had put his Name for ever, 2 King. 21. 4, 7. 2 Chron. 6. 5, 6. Compare 1 King. 11. 36. & 15. 4. Or, 2. In the Temple, which is more properly and constantly called Gods House; and so this Expression agrees but very imperfectly with Solomon, or his Successors, who might be said to be settled in Gods House, because they were settled near it, and in some sort set over it, because they were to take care that the Prie[illegible: 1+ letters]ts and others should perform their Offices and Gods Service in it; but strictly and properly agrees onely to Christ, to whom alone that Promise also of an Everlasting Establishment in this Kingdom belongs, as was noted on 2 Sam. 7. And this Expression seems to be most emphatically added to signifie that that person in whom all those Promises should be fully and perfectly accomplished, to wit, the Messias, should be settled not onely in the Kings Throne, as others of Davids Successors were, but also in Gods House or Temple; and consequently that he should be a Priest as well as a King; which Mystery was more clearly revealed to David, Psal. 110. 1, 2, 4. and may be intimated though obscurely (as was fit and usual in that State of the Church) in these words.

Either 1. In the Kingdom of Israel, which God calls his Kingdom, because he was in a special manner their King and Governour, having raised them up and formed them into a Kingdom, and given them that Protection and Assistance which Kings owe to their Kingdoms; and because he expected and required from them, what Kings do from their people, that they should be wholly governed by his Laws and devoted to his Service. Or 2. In Gods Kingdom in a more large and general Sence. And this as well as the former Phrase may seem singularly to belong to the Messiah, who was not onely to be the King of Israel, but also of all Nations, as was foretold even in the Old Testament, as Psal. 2. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. & 22. 27, 28. & 72. 11. Isa. 2. 4. Hagg. 2, 7. And so this may be an Intimation of that great Mystery which is more fully revealed in the New Testament, to wit, that Christ is the Head, or King, or Governour of all Gods Church consisting of Jews and Gentiles, and of all Nations, and indeed of all Creatures, the Angels not excepted; all which is Gods Kingdom and by him given to his Son our Blessed Lord Christ. And for the signification of these great things there is so great and remarkable an alteration of the Phrase here from what it is in 2. Sam. 7. where speaking to David he constantly calls it his (i. e. Davids) Kingdom, and his House v. 12, 13, 16, 19, 25, 27. for which he here saith my House, and my Kingdom, which also he distinguisheth from his Throne, which is mentioned in the next Clause of this Verse, and in v. 11, 12. But these things I submit to the Judicious Reader.

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