“Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; Ought ye not to know that
the [Eternal] God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever,
even to him and to his sons[plural] by a covenant of salt?”
The margin says “perpetual covenant.” This shows the establishing of the throne was
then in the past! God gave, did give, this kingdom to David and his sons—not his Son,
Christ, but his sons, plural—continuously forever. [ in Solomon ]
“I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Thy seed [dynasty] will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations”
-Established to All Generations
This throne, established forever, was built up to all generations. God did
establish that throne, beginning with David and Solomon. We have a record
of it for a number of generations, as far as King Zedekiah, 585 b.c.
“My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”
It was established to all generations, continuously, perpetually, forever!
That term “all generations” certainly must include those generations from
Zedekiah to the birth of Christ.
This is speaking of David’s seed, or David’s sons. His sons were to be kings.
David was of the tribe of Judah, possessor of the scepter, not the birthright,
promise. His “seed,” therefore, was the kingly line. So, literally, it means
his dynasty, his line of successive sons.
“If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes,
and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed [dynasty] shall
endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as
the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven” (Psalm 89:30-37).
If the children disobey and transgress, they shall be punished for their transgression
—but not by the breaking of God’s unconditional covenant with David!
“Thus saith the [Eternal]; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant
be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne…”
“Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which
the [Eternal] hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people,
that they should be no more a nation before them”
the [Eternal] God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever,
even to him and to his sons[plural] by a covenant of salt?”
The margin says “perpetual covenant.” This shows the establishing of the throne was
then in the past! God gave, did give, this kingdom to David and his sons—not his Son,
Christ, but his sons, plural—continuously forever. [ in Solomon ]
“I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Thy seed [dynasty] will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations”
-Established to All Generations
This throne, established forever, was built up to all generations. God did
establish that throne, beginning with David and Solomon. We have a record
of it for a number of generations, as far as King Zedekiah, 585 b.c.
“My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”
It was established to all generations, continuously, perpetually, forever!
That term “all generations” certainly must include those generations from
Zedekiah to the birth of Christ.
This is speaking of David’s seed, or David’s sons. His sons were to be kings.
David was of the tribe of Judah, possessor of the scepter, not the birthright,
promise. His “seed,” therefore, was the kingly line. So, literally, it means
his dynasty, his line of successive sons.
“If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes,
and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed [dynasty] shall
endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as
the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven” (Psalm 89:30-37).
If the children disobey and transgress, they shall be punished for their transgression
—but not by the breaking of God’s unconditional covenant with David!
“Thus saith the [Eternal]; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant
be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne…”
“Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which
the [Eternal] hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people,
that they should be no more a nation before them”
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