(9) I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them.--Comp. Exodus 15:17; Psalm 44:2-3. Although Israel had effected a settlement in Canaan, the history seems to show that down to the times of David the tribal boundaries were subject to great fluctuation, and the inroads of surrounding peoples made their tenure very uncertain.

Them . . . they . . . their.--Heb., him . . . he . . . his; Israel, the subject, being singular.

In their place.--In his own stead, or fixed habitation. (Comp. homestead, farmstead.)

Shall be moved.--Shall be troubled, or disturbed.

Children of wickedness.--Sons of wickedness, i.e., wicked men; like "sons of Belial" (worthlessness).

Waste them.--An Aramaic usage of the verb. Samuel, "afflict them," which seems original. (Comp. Genesis 15:13.)

As at the beginning.--Referring to the bondage in Egypt.

Verse 9. - All the verbs of this verse are in the same tense as those of the foregoing verse, which are correctly translated. For an expression similar to the last clause of the verse, Neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, may be found in Psalm 89:22.

17:1-27 David's purposes; God's gracious promises. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 7. See what is there said upon it. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word's sake, is here said to be, "for thy servant's sake," ver. 19. Jesus Christ is both the Word of God, Re 19:13, and the Servant of God, Isa 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.See Chapter Introduction