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2. the king's--Jehovah, peculiarly the king of Israel in the theocracy;
Ec 8:3, 4,
prove it is not the earthly king who is meant.
the oath of God--the covenant which God made with Abraham and renewed
with David; Solomon remembered
Ps 89:35,
"I have sworn," &c.
(Ps 89:36),
and the penalties if David's children should forsake it
(Ps 89:30-32);
inflicted on Solomon himself; yet God not "utterly" forsaking him
(Ps 89:33, 34).
JFB.
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