2 Samuel 23:5

“Although my house [be] not so with God, etc.] So bright, and flourishing, and prosperous as the government of the just ruler before described; or is not “right” f379 with God, meaning his family, in which great sins were committed, and great disorders and confusions brought into it, as the cases of Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah showed; or “not firm” or “stable” f380, through the rebellion of one, the insurrection of another, and the usurpation of a third; yet he believed it would be firm and stable in the Messiah that should spring from him, promised in the everlasting covenant; though the Jewish writers understand this of the firmness and stability of his kingdom and government: “but my…”

“Although my house ... - The sense of this clause (according to the the King James Version) will be that David comparing the actual state of his family and kingdom during the later years of trouble and disaster with the prophetic description of the prosperity of the righteous king, and seeing how far it falls short, comforts himself by the terms of God’s covenant 2 Samuel 7:12-16 and looks forward to Messiah’s kingdom. The latter clause, “although he make it not to grow,” must then mean that, although at the present time the glory of his house was not made to grow, yet all his salvation and all his desire was made sure in the covenant which would be fulfilled in due time. But most modern…”

“Altho' - Although God knows, that neither I, nor my children have lived and ruled as we should have done, so justly, and in the fear of the Lord; and therefore have not enjoyed that uninterrupted prosperity which we might have enjoyed. Covenant - Notwithstanding all our transgressions whereby we have broken covenant with God, yet God, to whom all my sins were known, was graciously pleased to make a sure covenant, to continue the kingdom to me, and to my seed for ever, Sa2 7:16, until the coming of the Messiah who is to be my son and successor, and whose kingdom shall have no end. Ordered - Ordained in all points by God's eternal counsel; and disposed by his wise and powerful providence which…”

“23:5 my family . . . everlasting covenant: David is referring to the prophecy Nathan made about David and his descendants (7:12-16). Jesus is the everlasting king who is the “descendant of David” (Matt 1:1).”

“Although: Sa2 7:18, Sa2 12:10, Sa2 13:14, Sa2 13:28, Sa2 18:14; Kg1 1:5, Kg1 2:24, Kg1 2:25, Kg1 11:6-8, Kg1 12:14 he hath made: Sa2 7:14-16; Ch1 17:11-14; Psa 89:3, Psa 89:28; Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7, Isa 55:3, Isa 61:8; Jer 32:40; Jer 33:25, Jer 33:26; Eze 37:26; Heb 13:20 and sure: Sa1 2:35, Sa1 25:28; Kg1 11:38; Act 13:34; Heb 6:19 all my salvation: Psa 62:2, Psa 119:81 desire: Psa 27:4, Psa 63:1-3, Psa 73:25, Psa 73:26 to grow: Isa 4:2, Isa 7:14, Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7, Isa 11:1, Isa 27:6; Amo 9:11; Co1 3:6, Co1 3:7 2 Kings (2 Samuel) 23:6”