Psalms 89:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 89:4

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

KJV

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ASV

Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. [Selah

WEB

‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

YLT

`Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

DBT

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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25 verses on the floor

2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Psalms 16:5
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 89:29
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Luke 1:32–33
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
2 Samuel 7:12–16
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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Here we have, (1.) The psalmist's faith and hope: "Things now look black, and threaten the utter extirpation of the house of David; but I have said, and I have warrant from the word of God to say it, that mercy shall be built up for ever. " As the goodness of God's nature is to be the matter of our song (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

5 ), and very great and precious promises they are which are here made to the Redeemer, which are strong foundations for the faith and hope of the redeemed to build upon. The comforts of our redemption flow from the covenant of redemption; all our springs are in that, Isa. lv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Build up - I will perpetuate the kingdom to thy posterity; which was promised upon condition, and was literally accomplished in Christ.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Same Word Genesis 22:18
H2233 zera -> 'thy seed will I establish forever'; spine into the royal psalms
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