7:1 Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. 19
22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 20 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 21 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
89:28 I will always extend my loyal love to him,
and my covenant with him is secure. 22
89:29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, 23
and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. 24
89:30 If his sons reject my law
and disobey my regulations,
89:31 if they break 25 my rules
and do not keep my commandments,
89:32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, 26
their sin by inflicting them with bruises. 27
89:33 But I will not remove 28 my loyal love from him,
nor be unfaithful to my promise. 29
89:34 I will not break 30 my covenant
or go back on what I promised. 31
89:35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness,
I will never deceive 32 David.
89:36 His dynasty will last forever. 33
His throne will endure before me, like the sun, 34
89:37 it will remain stable, like the moon, 35
his throne will endure like the skies.” 36 (Selah)
89:38 But you have spurned 37 and rejected him;
you are angry with your chosen king. 38
89:39 You have repudiated 39 your covenant with your servant; 40
you have thrown his crown to the ground. 41
132:11 The Lord made a reliable promise to David; 42
he will not go back on his word. 43
He said, 44 “I will place one of your descendants 45 on your throne.
132:12 If your sons keep my covenant
and the rules I teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”
1 tn Heb “then the
2 tn Heb “guard their way.”
3 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”
4 tn Or “soul.”
5 tn Heb “saying.”
6 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
7 tn Heb “walk in.”
8 tn Heb “do.”
9 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”
10 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”
11 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”
12 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”
13 tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”
14 tn Heb “name.”
15 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
16 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.
17 tn Or “the porch of the temple.”
18 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
19 tn Heb “His house Solomon built in thirteen years and he completed all his house.”
20 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
21 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
22 tn Heb “forever I will keep for him my loyal love and will make my covenant secure for him.”
23 tn Heb “and I will set in place forever his offspring.”
24 tn Heb “and his throne like the days of the heavens.”
25 tn Or “desecrate.”
26 tn Heb “I will punish with a club their rebellion.”
27 tn Heb “with blows their sin.”
28 tn Heb “break”; “make ineffectual.” Some prefer to emend אָפִיר (’afir; the Hiphil of פָּרַר, parar, “to break”) to אָסִיר (’asir; the Hiphil of סוּר, sur, “to turn aside”), a verb that appears in 2 Sam 7:15.
29 tn Heb “and I will not deal falsely with my faithfulness.”
30 tn Or “desecrate.”
31 tn Heb “and what proceeds out of my lips I will not alter.”
32 tn Or “lie to.”
33 tn Heb “his offspring forever will be.”
34 tn Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”
35 tn Heb “like the moon it will be established forever.”
36 tn Heb “and a witness in the sky, secure.” Scholars have offered a variety of opinions as to the identity of the “witness” referred to here, none of which is very convincing. It is preferable to join וְעֵד (vÿ’ed) to עוֹלָם (’olam) in the preceding line and translate the commonly attested phrase עוֹלָם וְעֵד (“forever”). In this case one may translate the second line, “[it] will be secure like the skies.” Another option (the one reflected in the present translation) is to take עד as a rare noun meaning “throne” or “dais.” This noun is attested in Ugaritic; see, for example, CTA 16 vi 22-23, where ksi (= כִּסֵּא, kisse’, “throne”) and ’d (= עד, “dais”) appear as synonyms in the poetic parallelism (see G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 91). Emending בַּשַּׁחַק (bashakhaq, “in the heavens”) to כַּשַׁחַק (kashakhaq, “like the heavens”) – bet/kaf (כ/ב) confusion is widely attested – one can then read “[his] throne like the heavens [is] firm/stable.” Verse 29 refers to the enduring nature of the heavens, while Job 37:18 speaks of God spreading out the heavens (שְׁחָקִים, shÿkhaqim) and compares their strength to a bronze mirror. Ps 89:29 uses the term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim, “skies”) which frequently appears in parallelism to שְׁחָקִים.
37 tn The Hebrew construction (conjunction + pronoun, followed by the verb) draws attention to the contrast between what follows and what precedes.
38 tn Heb “your anointed one.” The Hebrew phrase מְשִׁיחֶךָ (mÿshikhekha, “your anointed one”) refers here to the Davidic king (see Pss 2:2; 18:50; 20:6; 28:8; 84:9; 132:10, 17).
39 tn The Hebrew verb appears only here and in Lam 2:7.
40 tn Heb “the covenant of your servant.”
41 tn Heb “you dishonor [or “desecrate”] on the ground his crown.”
42 tn Heb “the
43 tn Heb “he will not turn back from it.”
44 tn The words “he said” are supplied in the translation to clarify that what follows are the
45 tn Heb “the fruit of your body.”