Psalms 21:10
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You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
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As the foregoing psalm was a prayer for the king that God would protect and prosper him, so this is a thanksgiving for the success God had blessed him with. Those whom we have prayed for we ought to give thanks for, and particularly for kings, in whose prosperity we share. They are here taught, I. To congratulate him on his victories, and the honour he had achieved (Psa 21:1-6). II. To confide in the power of God for the completing of the ruin of the enemies of his kingdom (Psa 21:7-13). In this there is an eye to Messiah the Prince, and the glory of his kingdom; for to him divers passages in this psalm are more applicable than to David himself. To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Open source ↗21:10 children . . . descendants: Evil will end when God destroys all opposition to himself (109:13; cp. 18:50; 22:30-31; 25:13; 102:28).
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For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”