So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever." Sermons
I. FAMILY FEELING IS DIVINELY ORDAINED. Nations of warriors have sometimes regarded and treated such feeling as weakness. On the contrary, it is implanted by the Creator; and God, the universal Father, cannot but be pleased with fatherly sentiment and fatherly care on the part of the heads of human households. II. FAMILY FEELING IS HALLOWED BY RELIGION. Always a beautiful thing, a father's love becomes a holy thing when it is sanctified by a spiritual tone of mind and a spiritual habit of life. III. FAMILY FEELING WILL PROMPT A FATHER'S PRAYERS. If it is natural to wish well to our children, it is religious to express those wishes before him who does so much to fulfil our best and purest desires. As it would be criminal in any parent to be careless as to his children's future, so it would be monstrous in a Christian parent to omit to commend his offspring to the care and guidance, love and sympathy, of our Father in heaven. IV. FAMILY FEELING WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMMON ENJOYMENT OF BLESSINGS DURING THE ENDLESS FUTURE. It is questionable whether the language of the text has any reference to the future state. In praying that his house might be "before the Lord for ever," and so "blessed for ever," David was probably contemplating the permanence of his throne and that of his descendants. His prayer has been answered in a manner deeper than he could have anticipated. But we are bound to seek for our posterity an immortal happiness, and to anticipate for our families reunion in the presence and in the service of the Eternal. - T.
Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant. It is —I. GROUNDED ON GOD'S PROMISE. II. IT REGARDS GOD'S HONOUR SOLELY (ver. 24). III. IT ASCRIBES ALL TO GOD'S FREE GRACE. IV. IT APPEALS TO GOD'S FAITHFULNESS. V. IT RECEIVES THE FULNESS OF GOD'S BLESSING. (J. Wolfendale.) That Thou wilt build him an house I. THEY WHO HAVE CHARGE OF FAMILIES SHOULD CHERISH AN EARNEST REGARD FOR THEIR WELFARE.II. Those who have the care of families should make it their chief anxiety TO IMPART TO THEM RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. Seeking their spiritual welfare we shall — 1. Strive to be the means of their conversion to God. 2. This we should do because converted families are scenes of harmony and love. 3. This only can impart abiding consolation under bereaving providences. 4. It will be thus we shall provide the means in our religious households of future usefulness to the Church and the world. (W. G. Barrett.) People David, Israelites, NathanPlaces Egypt, JerusalemTopics Age, Bless, Blessed, Blessest, Blessing, Continue, Family, Forever, Hast, O, Please, Pleased, Servant, SightOutline 1. Nathan first approving the purpose of David, to build God a house3. after by the word of God forbids him 11. He promises him blessings and benefits in his seed 16. David's prayer and thanksgiving Dictionary of Bible Themes 1 Chronicles 17:23-27Library Amasiah'Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the Lord.'--1 CHRON. xvii, 16. This is a scrap from the catalogue of Jehoshaphat's 'mighty men of valour'; and is Amasiah's sole record. We see him for a moment and hear his eulogium and then oblivion swallows him up. We do not know what it was that he did to earn it. But what a fate, to live to all generations by that one sentence! I. Cheerful self-surrender the secret of all religion. The words of our text contain a metaphor naturally … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Promise in 2 Samuel, Chap. vii. The Cavils of the Pharisees Concerning Purification, and the Teaching of the Lord Concerning Purity - the Traditions Concerning Hand-Washing' and Vows. ' The Divine Jesus. Chronicles Links 1 Chronicles 17:27 NIV1 Chronicles 17:27 NLT 1 Chronicles 17:27 ESV 1 Chronicles 17:27 NASB 1 Chronicles 17:27 KJV 1 Chronicles 17:27 Bible Apps 1 Chronicles 17:27 Parallel 1 Chronicles 17:27 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 17:27 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 17:27 French Bible 1 Chronicles 17:27 German Bible 1 Chronicles 17:27 Commentaries Bible Hub |