Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 8:2

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 8:2 - 8:2

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 8:2 - 8:2

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

8:1 - 8:1
8:2 - 8:2
8:3 - 8:3
8:4 - 8:4
8:5 - 8:5
8:6 - 8:6
8:7 - 8:7
8:8 - 8:8
8:9 - 8:9
8:10 - 8:10
8:11 - 8:11
8:12 - 8:12
8:13 - 8:13
8:14 - 8:14
8:15 - 8:15
8:16 - 8:16

the king’s - Jehovah, peculiarly the king of Israel in the theocracy; Ecc 8:3, Ecc 8:4, prove it is not the earthly king who is meant.

the oath of God - the covenant which God made with Abraham and renewed with David; Solomon remembered Psa 89:35, “I have sworn,” etc. (Psa 89:36), and the penalties if David’s children should forsake it (Psa 89:30-32); inflicted on Solomon himself; yet God not “utterly” forsaking him (Psa 89:33, Psa 89:34).