John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 6. Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house , etc.] Fixed, stated, habitation: since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt , even to this day ; a space of five or six hundred years, though he might before: but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle ; moving from place to place while in the wilderness, and since in the land of Canaan, first at Gilgal, then at Shiloh, afterwards at Nob, and now at Gibeon. “Tent” and “tabernacle” are distinguished, though they were but one building and habitation; the tent was the curtains of goats’ hair, and the tabernacle the linen curtains, (see Exodus 26:1,6,11-13). In ( 1 Chronicles 17:5) it is “from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another]”; which does not intend variety of tabernacles, but change of place.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-17 - Blessings are promised to the family and posterity of David. Thes promises relate to Solomon, David's immediate successor, and the roya line of Judah. But they also relate to Christ, who is often calle David and the Son of David. To him God gave all power in heaven an earth, with authority to execute judgment. He was to build the gospe temple, a house for God's name; the spiritual temple of true believers to be a habitation of God through the Spirit. The establishing of his house, his throne, and his kingdom for ever, can be applied to no othe than to Christ and his kingdom: David's house and kingdom long sinc came to an end. The committing iniquity cannot be applied to the Messiah himself, but to his spiritual seed; true believers have infirmities, for which they must expect to be corrected, though the are not cast off.
Original Hebrew כי3588 לא3808 ישׁבתי3427 בבית1004 למיום3117 העלתי5927 את853 בני1121 ישׂראל3478 ממצרים4714 ועד5704 היום3117 הזה2088 ואהיה1961 מתהלך1980 באהל168 ובמשׁכן׃4908
