Day 93 - 2 Samuel 5-7

However, the tribe of Judah did not fail until he came for whom it was reserved, who did not himself sit upon a material throne, for the kingdom of Judea had now been transferred to Herod, the son of Antipater, the Ascalonite, and to his sons, who divided Judea into four provinces when Pilate was governor and Tiberius held the power over the whole Roman province (Lk 3:1). But his indestructible kingdom he calls the throne of David on which the Lord sat. He himself is "the expectation of nations," (Gen 49:10 LXX) not of the least part of the world. "For there will be the root of Jesse," it is said, (Is 11:10 LXX) "and he who rises up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles will hope." "For I have placed you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles." (Is 42:6) "And I shall establish," it is said, ―his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens."―St Basil the Great