Psalms 21:4

He asked … thou gavest Cp. Psalms 2:8. Long life was one of Jehovah's special blessings under the old covenant. It was a natural object of desire when the hope of a future life was all but a blank. See Exo 23:26; 1 Kings 3:11; Proverbs 3:2. But how can length of days for ever and everbe said of a mortal king? Partly in the same way as the salutation "Let the king live for ever" was used (1 Kings 1:31; Nehemiah 2:3); partly because he was regarded as living on in his posterity (2 Samuel 7:29). Cp. Psalms 45:2; Psalms 45:6; Psalms 61:6; Psalms 72:5; Psalms 72:17.