2 Re 8:19

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his children.

Ver. 19. To give him alway a light.] i.e., A successor, till Shiloh should come. Luk 1:31 For although the Maccabees, who were of another tribe, bore sway for a season; yet at the same time, as Calvin well observeth, sat the Synedrium, who were of David's posterity, exercised chief authority, and lasted till Christ's nativity in great power.