2 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 7:14

I will chasten him with the rod of men.

If he offend me, I will chastise him gently and favourably; as loving parents use to correct their dearest children.

2 Samuel 7:15

My mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

I will not utterly take away the kingdom from his posterity, as I took it from Saul, to give it unto thee; but will perpetuate it spiritually to thy seed.

2 Samuel 7:21

And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

To figure out the firmness and stability of his Church for ever, he erected two brazen pillars in the porch of the Temple; and called the one, God shall establish, and the other, In it is strength, implying, both what invincible strength the Church of God should have, and whence it should be received.

2 Samuel 7:23

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other.

And he made a large and vast vessel of brass, for the use of their manifold washings, which seemed like to some spacious pond or sea, for the quantity of water which it contained: the wideness whereof was ten cubits, from the one side to the other.

2 Samuel 7:26

It contained two thousand baths.

It contained two thousand of those measures, whereof every one held six gallons of our account.