Psalms 132:2-7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If David king of Israel thus vowed, and thus engaged to Jehovah; surely it requires but little acquaintance with the scripture (when once the Holy Ghost hath brought us to the knowledge of David's Surety) to discover that he represented only the Lord Christ, in his suretyship engagements for his people. Was it not Jesus, who at the call of Jehovah stood up to build the temple of the Lord: and whose soul was straitened, until he had accomplished it? Could the Lord possibly mean Solomon, king of Israel, David's son after the flesh, when he said, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever? Who doth not see in all this, that it is Christ, the seed of David after the flesh (but David's Lord after the Spirit) that is all along intended by these declarations? I pray the Reader to consult the following scriptures upon this grand point; and if his mind find satisfaction from them, as I pray he may, I beseech him to be very jealous in future over himself while reading the word of God, and not fall into the error, too common in the Church, but which in days of the gospel like the present, should be carefully avoided, I mean that of dwelling upon the type, to the prejudice of more clearly seeing the antitype. I know by experience that from being more conversant with thing s natural, than with things spiritual, we are too apt to overlook what is intended, from looking too much to what is said. It is of Christ the scriptures principally treat in every part, and therefore, after him we should be searching. The scriptures in elucidation of this Psalm, which I wish the Reader to consult, are 2 Samuel 7:1-16; Psalms 89:2-4. And I particularly request, the Reader to take notice of that part of this Psalm, as connected with the former, from the 19th to the 36th verse (Psalms 89:19-36); all which most fully prove that Christ, and not David, is referred to. It is to God's Holy One the Lord speaks, in vision; and of whose kingdom there will be no end, Luke 1:26-33. Hence the multitude's salutation of Christ, Matthew 21:5-9. See also Zechariah 6:12-13; Micah 5:2 with Matthew 2:1-6. So that the sacred writer sings in this Psalm of going into His tabernacles, whose birth-place was found at Bethlehem-Ephratah.