What consultation had David with Nathan when the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies?
Did Nathan speak this by revelation, or merely according to his own private judgment?
Recite the introduction of the message which came that night to Nathan, and which he was commanded to declare to David? v.4—7.
Was David however accepted in his intentions, though not permitted to go on with the work? 1 Kings 8. 18.
What splendid preparations was he permitted to make for the building? 1 Chron. ch.22—29.
Of what does the prophet then go on to remind David, and what promise is made as to the establishment of his people?
What promises and blessings does God then proceed to entail upon his family and posterity?
In whom are these promises to be considered as having been fulfilled? N. B. Partly in Solomon, but more fully and appropriately in Christ.
Is it any where said that Christ should build a house for God's name? Zech. 6. 12, 13.
Does the New Testament inform us how this prophecy is fulfilled ?
Is it said that Christ should inherit the throne of his father David? Luke 1. 32.
To whom are the promises in v. 14. elsewhere applied? Heb. 1. 5. Ps. 89. 30—33.
In what other sacred writer do we find a most striking prediction of the Messiah's future kingdom? Dan. 7. 13, 14. N. B. The expectation which had long prevailed among the Jews prior to the advent of Christ of the coming of some kind of heavenly reign or kingdom, and to which John the Baptist and our Saviour himself alluded in their preaching, is to be traced to these and similar predictions. But by strangely overlooking that whole class of prophecies which spake of the necessary humiliation and sufferings of the Messiah, they had grafted upon these Scriptures, the most vain and extravagant anticipations, and flattered themselves, even to their undoing as a nation, with the delusive hope of a glorious worldly king who should exalt them to a high rank among the nations of the earth, and consequently rejected the Son of God, because his lowly appearance did not correspond with their expectations.
How did David receive this message, and how did he utter his grateful and adoring sense of the divine goodness?
To what does he ascribe the Lord's kindness towards him, and does he in this speak the language of every christian?
What part of this prayer is omitted in the corresponding passage? 1 Chron 17. 21.
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