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The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight, clarity, and faithfulness to the divine intent of the biblical text. This landmark work will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, interpreting Scripture as a harmonious unity centered in the person...

לָשֶׁבֶת is implied: “I will dwell again (and again) in the house of Yhwh.” See שׁוּב לָשֶׁבֶת in Num 35:32; Jer 44:14; cf. 2 Sam 1:1; 15:19; Jer 42:10; Hos 14:8 [7]. לְאֹ֣רֶךְ יָמִֽים׃—“Forever.” This expression can mean “a long time” (JPS: “for many long years”; see Ps 91:16; Prov 3:2, 16), but here I interpret it as a construction that heightens or goes beyond the boundaries described in Ps 23:6a: כָּל־יְמֵ֣י חַיָּ֑י, “all the days of my life.” In this way, the final line is truly climactic. The
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