Verse 9
Blessed be the Lord thy God ,.... Of whom she might have better notions than when she came out of her own country:
which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel ; loved him with a love of complacency and delight, was Jedidiah, as he called him, beloved of the Lord, and therefore he chose him and preferred him to be king before his elder brother:
because the Lord loved Israel for ever ; to establish them as a kingdom for ever as they were, so long as obedient to him; see 2 Chronicles 9:8 ,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice ; not merely for the sake of honour and glory, much less to indulge to pleasure and luxury, and still less to oppression and tyranny; but to administer justice and judgment to the people, which is the principal end of government; see Psalm 72:1 .
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