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1 Chronicles 17:7

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Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my people Israel:

KJV

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

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Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

I took thee from the sheepcote

on 1 Chronicles 17:7-10

The reversal from shepherd to ruler and the promise of a planted, undisturbed people match 2 Sam 7:8-11 closely, and the Samuel exposition already carries this shepherd-boy movement in full. One clause turns forward instead of back: Samuel's I have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies, 2 Sam 7:11, becomes Chronicles' I will subdue all thine enemies, a promise still open rather than a rest already given. A book written for a remnant with no standing army and no settled peace keeps the subduing future rather than past.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

9, 10. at the beginning, and since the time that I commanded judges--that is, including the whole period from Joshua to Saul. I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house--This was the language of Nathan himself, who was specially directed to assure David, not only of personal blessing and prosperity, but of a continuous line of royal descendants.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְ֠עַתָּהand therefore

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • כֹּֽה־thus

    koh-H3541 →577 times

  • תֹאמַ֞רyou will say

    tomarH559 →5305 times

  • לְעַבְדִּ֣יto servant my

    leavdiH5650 →799 times

  • לְדָוִ֗יד סto David

    ledavidH1732 →999 times

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • צְבָא֔וֹתof hosts

    tzevaotH6635 →485 times

  • אֲנִ֤יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • לְקַחְתִּ֙יךָ֙I took you

    lekachtikhaH3947 →966 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַנָּוֶ֔הthe pasture

    hanavehH5116 →

  • מִֽן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֖יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • הַצֹּ֑אןthe flock

    hatzonH6629 →274 times

  • לִהְי֣וֹתto be

    lihyotH1961 →3559 times

  • נָגִ֔ידruler

    nagidH5057 →45 times

  • עַ֖לover

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • עַמִּ֥יpeople my

    ʾamiH5971 →1873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Samuel 7:8Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.7 works2 Samuel 6:21But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,5 works1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”4 worksPsalms 78:70–71He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;3 worksExodus 3:1–10Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.3 works1 Samuel 17:15but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Luke 5:10and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”2 worksAmos 7:14–15“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.2 worksMatthew 2:6‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”2 worksMatthew 4:18–22As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Luke 5:10

    and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”

    it leads to

    • Matthew 4:19

      “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

    • Matthew 13:47

      Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.

    • Ezekiel 47:9–10

      Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.

    • Mark 1:17

      “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

  • Through

    2 Samuel 6:21

    But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate…

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:22

      After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in…

    • Psalms 89:19–20

      You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

    • 2 Samuel 6:16

      As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him…

    • 1 Samuel 13:14

      But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD.”

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About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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