In another passage this prophet says, that the two nations, Israel and Judah, shall have one king, and that this king shall be named David, who shall reign for ever, chap. xxxvii. 21—­28.  “Say unto them, thus saith the Lord God, behold I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.  And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them, so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.  And David my servant shall be king over them, and there shall be one shepherd.  They shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes and do them.  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever.  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them:  it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them, for evermore.  My tabernacle also shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And the heathen shall know, that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall, be in the midst of them for evermore.”

The natural construction of this seems to be this, “that a descendant of David, called by that name, should reign over the Israelites for ever.”

In the very circumstantial description which Ezekiel gives of the state of the Israelites in their own country, yet expected by the Jews, he speaks of the prince, and the portion assigned him, chap. xlv. 78.  And in his description of the temple service, he moreover speaks of the gate, by which the prince is to enter into it.  See chap. xlvi. 1, 2.

The next, and last, passage I shall quote, is from the book of Daniel, who, in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, had a vision of four beasts, representing the four great Empires.  At the close of his account of which, he speaks of “one like the son of man” being brought into the presence of God, and receiving from the Eternal an everlasting kingdom (chap. vii. 13)—­“I saw in the night visions, and behold one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and come to the ancient of days; and they brought him near before him.  And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him:  his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”