Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Chronicles 22:9

"Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days:" — 1 Chronicles 22:9 (ASV)

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest.

That is a very sweet name for Solomon, "A man of rest." I pray that many a believer here may be a man of that kind. Some believers have to be men of war. There they are, in a world of struggles, disputes, contentions, of their own ambitions—but happy is that man who is of a gentle and a tender spirit, a spirit of holy wisdom, and whom God gives the great privilege to be a man of peace.

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest;

God's Church is to be a place of rest. God's temple was built by a man of rest.

And I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

Then the house of the Lord would be built; no stain of blood would be upon it. The only blood within it should be that of holy sacrifices, symbolical of the great Sacrifice of Christ.