Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 8:16

16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt , I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my Name might be therein ; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

Until David's time; for then he did chuse Ierusalem.

i. e. I did not declare my choice of it: for so chusing is used for declaring or executing ones choice, as Deut. 12. 1. 2 Chron. 6. 5. Zech. 2. 12. and things are oft said to be done when they are onely manifested or declared to be such; in which sense God is said to be justified, Psal. 51. 4. and Men to be guilty, Hos. 5. 15. Otherwise to speak properly, whatsoever God chuseth, he chuseth from Eternity.

That my Presence, and Grace, and Worship, and Glory, might be there.

And in and with him the Tribe of Iudah, of which he was, and Ierusalem where he dwelt; which is here implied by the opposition of this to the former part of the Verse.

Marginal references: 2 Sam. 7. 8.