“Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.”
Eternal establishment: "His line shall continue forever, and his throne as long as the sun before me." The eternity of David's line is sworn by God's holiness. The comparison to the sun's perpetuity (in ancient cosmology, the sun was understood as eternal) suggests unending duration.
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