The Coming Son Of David (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
The fact is now brought out that one day a Son of David would arise from the house of David who would restore His people's fortunes and establish the everlasting Kingly Rule of God. It is a regular promise in Scripture, commencing with the promises made to David in 2 Samuel 7:12-13; 2 Samuel 7:16 and confirmed, for example, in Jeremiah 30:9; Jeremiah 33:15-17; Isaiah 9:5-6; Isaiah 11:1-4; Isaiah 16:5; Isaiah 55:3; Ezekiel 34:1-31; Ezekiel 37:21-28; Hosea 3:5; Amos 9:11.
“Behold, the days are coming,
The word of YHWH,
That I will raise up to David a righteous Branch,
And he will reign as king and deal wisely,
And will execute justice and righteousness in the land.”
Following the restoration promised by YHWH will be the coming days when He will raise up to David a righteous Branch (or Shoot), a Branch of righteousness (Jeremiah 33:15), a Branch which will grow out of his roots (Isaiah 11:1), in other words a sprouting from the shoot, we might say ‘a chip off the old block' although emphasising the derivation of the one from the other, and He will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land (compare Isaiah 11:2-4; Isaiah 9:5-6), precisely what the current kings had failed to do (Jeremiah 22:2-4). And this too was the guaranteed ‘word of YHWH'. Note that the ‘word of YHWH' has guaranteed the whole process.
There was an initial fulfilment of this in Zerubabbel, ‘Behold the man whose name is The Branch, (the one who has sprouted from the stock of David), and he will grow up out of his place, and he will build the temple of the Lord' (Zechariah 6:12), but it was only as a shadow of what was coming. It awaited its final fulfilment in our Lord Jesus Christ Who was not only the Branch, but also the whole Vine from which other branches would grow (John 15:1-6). He came and established the Kingly Rule of God in justice and righteousness (Luke 1:32-33; Luke 1:69; Luke 2:11), and appointed twelve men to sit on the thrones of the house of David (Psalms 122:4-5) ruling as servants over His people (Matthew 19:28-29). He was a greater than David (Mark 12:35-37), and His Kingly Rule was not directly of this world (John 18:37), for He ruled over a people not an area of land (Acts 2:36; Matthew 28:18-20).