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k. In his sermon on Pentecost, the apostle Peter also quoted from David in Psalm 16:810, and then commented as follows:\he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day. Being, therefore, a prophet [as well as king over Israel], and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne; he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he [%u2018his soul,%u2019 v. 27] left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all [Peterand the other apostles] are witnesses. Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear\2:25-33).In other words, God had raised Jesus from the dead and exhaled him to his own right hand to \Mary, the mother-to-be of his fleshly body (Luke 1:16-33).If that should seem strange because David reigned on earth, and Christ would reign from heaven, it should be recognized that the authorityand notthe locationis signified by the word \time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned in Jerusalem. And he died in a good old age, %u2026and Solomon his son reigned in his stead\Jehovahas king instead of Davidhis father\reigned. Solomon%u2019s throne was Jehovah%u2019s throne, which he occupied instead of David his father; therefore, David%u2019s throne was God%u2019s throne, which he sat upon first at Hebron, then in Jerusalem. And the throne Jesus occupies in heaven is God%u2019s throne. Which he occupies jointly with him, at his right hand %u2013where \to promise to the virgin Mary (Luke 1:33), though the earthly phase of it would end, as already noted.l. As Solomon was a son of David and heir to his throne, so was Christ according to the flesh many years later. The last occupant of David%u2019s throne before Christ occupied it was Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8) %u2013also called Jeconiah (1 Chronicles 3:16), and Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24) %u2013who was taken into Babylonian captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar about 597 B.C., where he died about 37 years later. Nebuchadnezzar had replaced him with Zedekiah, a brother but not a son, who later rebelled and was also taken into Babylonian captivity (2 Chronicles 36:10-21). And to the prophet Jeremiah, God said of Coniah: \shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling Judah\He was not childless in the sense of having no prosperity, for in captivity he had a son Shealtiel, who was one of the ancestors of Jesus (Matthew 1:12-16); but he was childless in the sense of havingno posterity to succeed him \Judah.\