...with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand : and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,...of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder ; BO he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open." And once more, if...

...and calls them the sepulchres of the kings of Persia. Bp. LOWTH, in loc. • No. 248. — xxii. 22. The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder.] The difficulties which commentators have found in this passage are judiciously removed by the learned...

...thy gij'dle, he shall have thy honour and flower, and I will commit thy government into his hand : and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah ; he shall take a tender care of the city 22 and country. And the key of the house of David will I...

...monuments, and calls them the sepulchres of the kings of Persia. Bp. LOWTH, in loc. No- 248. — xxii. 22. The key of the house of David •will I lay upon his shoulder.~\ The difficulties which commentators have found in this passage are judiciously removed by the learned...

...branch shall grow out of his roots. Isa. xi. 4. With righteousness shall he judge. Rom. xv. 2. xxii. 22. The key of the house of David, will I lay upon his shoulders. Jer. xxx. 5. I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper,...

...foreigner in blood and false in heart, yet hath command in the house of Hezekiah, and say, XXII. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his fhoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. I will put...

...? XXII. 18 And there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. • XXII. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon la's shoulder ; so he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open. I will...

...with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy giixlle, and I will commit thy government into his hand : LORD appeared unto the woman, and said untoher, Behold, now, tolhe house 'if Judah. 22 And the key of ihe house of D ivid will I lay upon his shoulder ; so he shall...

...the magistrates are fathers in the civil stale :" Eliakim, having the government in his hands should be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of JuJah," Isaiah xxii. 20, 21. Thus also the aged, " whom we must entreat as fathers and mothers," 1...

...in what an infinitely higher degree do the benefits of Christ's administration appear! Was Eliakim " a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah?" What a blessing is Christ also to the world at large! As, in a state, all are benefited by a wise administration,...