3. me . . . live--by coming to me ye shall live: for "I am the life"
(Joh 14:6).
everlasting covenant--
(Jer 32:40;
2Sa 23:5).
with you . . . David--God's covenant is with the antitypical David,
Messiah
(Eze 34:23),
and so with us by our identification with Him.
sure--answering to "everlasting," irrevocable, unfailing, to be relied
on
(Ps
89:2-4, 28, 29, 34-36;
Jer 33:20, 21;
2Sa 7:15, 16;
2Co 1:18-20).
mercies of David--the mercies of grace
(Isa 63:7;
Joh 1:16)
which I covenanted to give to David, and especially to Messiah, his
antitype. Quoted in
Ac 13:34.
JFB.
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