CONTENTS
This chapter contains some of the last words of David, and as such
cannot but be very interesting. To these words of David is added a
list of David's worthies, his mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:1
(1) В¶ Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was rais... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
(3) The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that
ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
If the Reader carefully attends to those three distinct titles, and
yet all one and the same, by which D... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,
even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of
the earth by clear shining after rain.
Who can this be but JESUS? Of whom, among the sons of men, could it
ever be said that he was as a morning without clouds?... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all
my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
How natural and proper was it for David, when speaking of JESUS, and
his salvation, to make a... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away,
because they cannot be taken with hands: (7) But the man that shall
touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they
shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
What a contrast is here drawn! And i... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) В¶ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same
was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom
he slew at one time. (9) And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the
Ahohite, one of the three... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
How sweet are the last words of dying saints. And how doubly so when
they are sanctified to lead to JESUS. Reader! amidst all the trying
dispensations in the life of the patriarch David; yet observe what
confidence in covenant engagements can do, to give a soul comfort and
holy joy. Dav... [ Continue Reading ]