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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Psalms Chapter 132 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Psalms Chapter 132 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. habitation--literally, "dwellings," generally used to denote the sanctuary.
Psalms Chapter 132 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. These may be the "words of David" and his pious friends, who,
at Ephratah--or Beth-lehem
(Ge 48:7),
where he once lived, may have heard of the ark, which he found for the first time
in the fields of the wood--or, Jair, or Kirjath-jearim ("City of woods")
(1Sa 7:1; 2Sa 6:3, 4),
whence it was brought to Zion.
Psalms Chapter 132 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. The purpose of engaging in God's worship is avowed.
Psalms Chapter 132 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8, 9. The solemn entry of the ark, symbolical of God's presence and power, with the attending priests, into the sanctuary, is proclaimed in the words used by Solomon
(2Ch 6:41).
Psalms Chapter 132 10 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
10-12. For thy servant David's sake--that is, On account of the promise made to him.
turn . . . anointed--Repulse not him who, as David's descendant, pleads the promise to perpetuate his royal line. After reciting the promise, substantially from
2Sa 7:12-16
(compare
Ac 2:30,
&c.), an additional plea,
Psalms Chapter 132 13 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
13. is made on the ground of God's choice of Zion (here used for Jerusalem) as His dwelling, inasmuch as the prosperity of the kingdom was connected with that of the Church
(Ps 122:8, 9).
Psalms Chapter 132 14 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
14-18. That choice is expressed in God's words, "I will sit" or "dwell," or sit enthroned. The joy of the people springs from the blessings of His grace, conferred through the medium of the priesthood.
Ps 132:1-18.
The writer, perhaps Solomon (compare
Ps 132:8, 9),
after relating David's pious zeal for God's service, pleads for the fulfilment of the promise
(2Sa 7:16),
which, providing for a perpetuation of David's kingdom, involved that of God's right worship and the establishment of the greater and spiritual kingdom of David's greater Son. Of Him and His kingdom both the temple and its worship, and the kings and kingdom of Judah, were types. The congruity of such a topic with the tenor of this series of Psalms is obvious.
1-5. This vow is not elsewhere recorded. It expresses, in strong language, David's intense desire to see the establishment of God's worship as well as of His kingdom.
remember David--literally, "remember for David," that is, all his troubles and anxieties on the matter.