Psalms 132:14

“This [is] my rest for ever, etc.] The rest of my majesty, as the Targum; the place of his rest: and this being for ever shows that not Mount Zion literally, nor the temple, are meant; but the church and people of God, in whom he rests in his love, and rejoices over with joy; who are the objects of his delight, and with whom he abides for ever; for this phrase is expressive of pleasure and delight, and of permanency and perpetuity; here will I dwell, for I have desired it; not merely by his omnipresence, in which sense he dwells everywhere, both in heaven and in earth; nor only by his omnipotence, by which he upholds all creatures in their being, and so is present with them all; and they all…”

“This is my rest for ever - My home; my permanent abode. I will no more remove from place to place - as when the ark was carried in the wilderness, and as it has been since; but Zion shall now be the fixed seat of religion. See the notes at Psalms 68:16. Here will I dwell ... - Permanently; constantly. return to 'Top of Page'”

“my rest: Psa 132:8; Isa 11:10, Isa 66:1; Zep 3:17 here will: Psa 68:18, Psa 76:2, Psa 135:21; Kg1 8:13, Kg1 8:27; Isa 8:18, Isa 12:6, Isa 57:15; Joe 3:21; Eph 2:22; Heb 12:22; Rev 21:23 for I have: Psa 87:2 Psalms 132:15”

“Shiloh has been rejected ( Psa 78:60), for a time only was the sacred Ark in Bethel ( Jdg 20:27) and Mizpah ( Jdg 21:5), only somewhat over twenty years was it sheltered by the house of Abinadab in Kirjath-Jearim ( Sa1 7:2), only three months by the house of Obed-Edom in Perez-uzzah ( Sa2 6:11) \- but Zion is Jahve's abiding dwelling-place, His own proper settlement, מנוּחה (as in Isa 11:10; Isa 66:1, and besides Ch1 28:2). In Zion, His chosen and beloved dwelling-place, Jahve blesses everything that belongs to her temporal need (צידהּ for זידתהּ, vid., on Psa 27:5, note); so that her poor do not suffer want, for divine love loves the poor most especially. His second blessing refers to the…”