John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 15:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Nevertheless, for David’s sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, etc.] A kingdom there, as the Targum, splendid and glorious, to be continued in his posterity: to set up his son after him; in it: and to establish Jerusalem: to continue that in which the temple was, for the sake of which, and the worship of God in it, there was a succession of David’s posterity on the throne of Judah.

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