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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Psalms 132:14

This is my rest for ever - My home; my permanent abode. I will no more remove from place to place - as when the ark was carried in the wilderness, and as it has been since; but Zion shall now be the fixed seat of religion. See the notes at Psalms 68:16.

Here will I dwell ... - Permanently; constantly.

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See also Psalms 132:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 132:14. _THIS_ IS _MY REST FOR EVER_] Here the Christian Church is most indubitably meant. This is _God's place_ for ever. After this there never will be another _dispensation_; Christia...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXXXII. DAVID'S ZEAL AND ITS REWARD. Psalms 132:1. David's oath to find a worthy abode for the Ark in which Yahweh dwelt. Psalms 132:1_ b_. AFFLICTION: rather pains, _i.e._ the pains he took to find...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah's answer to the prayer with which the Psalm begins. He will remember David, for He has chosen Zion to be His abode, and He will bless her people and her priests, and restore the power and pros...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah speaks. The expression of His Will in the facts of history is translated into the form of an utterance. Observe the stress laid on the Divine choice: in making Jerusalem the religious centre o...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 726 ZION A TYPE OF THE CHURCH Psalms 132:13. _The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. I will a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 132 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Davidic Dynasty Humbled and Exalted. ANALYSIS Stanza, Psalms 132:1-10, Prayer by the Typical Messiah. Anti-Stanza, Psalms 132:11-18, Promise for the Anti

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. THIS IS MY REST FOREVER: HERE WILL I DWELL; FOR I HAVE DESIRED IT - (.) The Lord's answer is exactly consonant to the prayer. ,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is the most difficult of the Pilgrim Songs. According to accepted literary criticism it must be a post-exilic Ps. The Temple worship has been restored. The days of David are in the distant past....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See Psalms 68:16....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 132 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    זֹאת ־מְנוּחָתִ֥י עֲדֵי ־עַ֑ד פֹּֽה ־אֵ֝שֵׁ֗ב...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 132:1 THE continuance of "the sure mercies of David" to his descendants for his sake is first besought from God, and is then promised, for his sake, by God Himself, speaking in the singer's spi...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      THE LORD'S BLESSING UPON ZION Psalms 132:1-18 This psalm evidently dates from the dedication of Solomon's temple. In the glory of completion God never forgets the toils and anxieties of the builde...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The pilgrims stand at the very entrance of the Holy City, and their song is one of strong desire, and equally strong confidence. In the first part the desire is expressed (vv. Psa 132:1-10). It is for...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have (i) desired it. (i) Meaning, for his own sake and not for the plentifulness of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before that...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    ALL these very precious promises, prayers, and praises, will find an easy explanation from the view of the scriptures just referred to, as well as other portions of the divine word, which come in to o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._This is my rest for ever. _The same truth is here put into the mouth of God, to give it additional weight; and it is declared not to have been in vain that the Temple had been erected, since God w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 132 is, in some respects, a very interesting psalm. It is the restoration of the ark of the covenant to its resting-place, and the promises of Jehovah, in answer to the supplication of His serv...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THIS [IS] MY REST FOR EVER,.... The rest of my majesty, as the Targum; the place of his rest: and this being for ever shows that not Mount Zion literally, nor the temple, are meant; but the church and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. Ver. 14. _This is my rest for ever_] It was so because God was pleased to make it so; he rested in his love; he would seek no far...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the Lord hath chosen Zion_ Taken either for the whole mountain, whereof Zion and Moriah were two parts, or for Jerusalem, which was, in a great part, built upon mount Zion, whence it is often cal...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    This is My rest forever, Jerusalem the Lord's permanent Sanctuary, not like Shiloh, which He had rejected; HERE WILL I DWELL, FOR I HAVE DESIRED IT. From this Sanctuary the Lord dispenses His blessing...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRAYER FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD AND THE HOUSE OF DAVID. A song of degrees, showing that the mercies of God, so richly promised to David, 2 Samuel 7:12, would find their real fulfilment in the Messiah, th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-18 The Lord never turns from us when we plead the covenant with his anointed Prophet, Priest, and King. How vast is the love of God to man, that he should speak thus concerning his church! It is h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I will no more wander to several places as I have done, but here I have fixed my abode....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 132:14 place H4496 forever H5703 dwell H3427 (H8799) desired H183 (H8765) my rest -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 132 This Psalm is plainly a hymn for the consecration of the Temple. We may call it the song of the builders. In its first portion, extending to the close of the seventh verse, the Church plea...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    A Song of Degrees. Psalms 132:1. _LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions._ God had entered into an everlasting covenant with David, « ordered in all things and sure,» and in this Psalm either...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm is a prayer and pleading of the covenant, such a prayer as might have been offered by Solomon at the opening of the Temple, or by any of the descendants of David, either in their times of j...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A pleading of the divine covenant and its promises. CHARACTERS: God, David, Christ. CONCLUSION: Those who have the immutable promises of God for their foundation stand upon a sure rock. Go...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm is justly ascribed to David. It recites his vow to seek out a place of rest for the ark of the Lord; and the song of praise and prayer on its removal from Kirjath-jearim. Psalms 132:6. _Eph...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord hath chosen Zion._ GOD’S CHOICE OF ZION He giveth a reason for the absolute promise of Christ’s coming to rule the spiritual kingdom of Israel, or the Church, because the Lord had chos...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions._ THE HOUSE OF GOD This psalm was probably composed on the occasion of the installation of the ark in the place provided for it in the temple. Solomon...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 132:1. The theme of this royal psalm is God’s covenant with David’s house to establish the dynasty for the good of the people and, eventually, of the whole world ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 132:11 SWORE TO DAVID. This promise is God’s answer to the prayer of vv. Psalms 132:8. God promised to preserve the dynasty, and expects th

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION The author of this Psalm and the occasion upon which it was composed are both unknown. The opinion of M. Henry, Perowne, and others, is that it was composed for the dedication of Solomon’...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This present "Song of Ascents" is well suited to be a "pilgrim-song"—sung by those who went up to Jerusalem to visit the temple, and revivify their faith in the God who had chosen Zion for...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:13; 1 Kings 8:27; Ephesians 2:22; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 11

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