Psalms 122:5
For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
In Context
6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose.
2 Samuel 8:18and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Chronicles 11:22And Rehoboam established Abijah the son of Maachah at the head, to be ruler among his brethren; for [he thought] to make him king.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 122:2-6
The Pleasures of Public Worship. 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord . 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord , unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord . 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Here we have, I. The pleasure which David and other pious Israelites took in approaching to and… Read the whole commentary →