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Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, until David’s time; for then he did choose Jerusalem.
I chose no city, i.e. I did not declare my choice of it; for so choosing is used for declaring or executing one’s choice, as Deu_12:1 2Ch_6:5 Zec_2:12, and things are oft said to be done when they are only manifested or declared to be such; in which sense God is said to be justified, Psa_51:4, and men to be guilty, Hos_5:15. Otherwise, to speak properly, whatsoever God chooseth, he chooseth from eternity.
That my name might be therein; that my presence, and grace, and worship, and glory might be there.
I chose David, and in and with him the tribe of Judah, of which he was, and Jerusalem, where he dwelt; which is here implied by the opposition of this to the former part of the verse.