Psalms 132

Psalms 132 11

My Notes Authors Matthew Henry - Commentary on the Whole Bible These are precious promises, confirmed by an oath, that the heirs of them might have _strong consolation, _Heb. vi. 17, 18. It is all one whether we take them as pleas urged in the prayer or as answers returned to the prayer; believers know how to make use of the promises both ways, with them to speak to God and in them to hear what God the Lord will speak to us. These promises relate to the establishment both in church and state, both to the throne of the house of David and to the testimony of Israel fixed on Mount Zion. The promises concerning Zion’s hill are as applicable to the gospel-church as these concerning David’s seed are to Christ, and therefore both pleadable by us and very comfortable to us. Here is,

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