And DAVID my servant shall be king over them, and there shall be one shepherd.

They shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes and do them.
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever, and my servant DAVID shall be their prince forever.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them: it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them, for evermore.

My tabernacle also shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And the heathen shall know, that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall, be in the midst of them for evermore." The natural construction of this seems to be this, "that a descendant of David, called by that name, should reign over the Israelites for ever." In the very circumstantial description which Ezekiel gives of the state of the Israelites in their own country, yet expected by the Jews, he speaks of the prince, and the portion assigned him, chap.
xlv.78.And in his description of the temple service, he moreover speaks of the gate, by which the prince is to enter into it.

See chap.
xlvi.