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2 Samuel 7:28

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And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:

KJV

And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

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This verse in 2 Samuel 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And now, O Lord God, thou art that God,.... Who is the Lord of hosts, and the God of Israel, that has promised and is able to perform, and is faithful to his promise: and thy words be true; are truly, punctually, and faithfully performed, never fail: and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant; concerning building and establishing his house. David repeats this promise as being greatly affected with it, and fully assured of the performance of it.

This site's exposition

You are God!

on 2 Samuel 7:28-29

The prayer closes where it began, on who God is, and David says, “Your words are true”. He asks God “to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You”. His prayer is the shape faith takes, a request built on the word already given.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Augustine of Hippo

City of God 17.12 · Written before 430.

proposed

David, understanding this, says in the second book of Kings [Samuel] … "You did also speak of the house of your servant for a long time to come." And, further on, "And now begin and bless the house of your servant that it may endure forever," etc. At that time, David was about to beget his son through whom his lineage would be carried down to Christ; through whom, in turn, his house was to be everlasting—indeed, identified with the house of God. It was to be called the "house of David" because [it was] of David's stock and, simultaneously, the "house of God" because it was a temple to God made not of stones but of people. In this house God's people shall everlastingly dwell with their God and in their God, and God with his people and in his people, God filling his people, his people filled with their God, so that "God may be all in all"—the very same God being their prize in peace who was their strength in battle.It was with this in view that, when Nathan had said, "And the Lord said to you, that you shall build him a house," David said further on, "Because you, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed to the ear of your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' " This is a house which we build by living virtuously and which God builds by helping us to live virtuously, for "unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." Only, however, when this house receives its final consecration will the words God spoke by Nathan's lips come true: "And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more: neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did before, from the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel."

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And, in both these, there is an eye to the Messiah and his kingdom. 1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the L ORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְעַתָּ֣ה׀and now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣יO Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • אַתָּה־you

    ʾatah-H859 →1094 times

  • הוּא֙he

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים[are] <the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • וּדְבָרֶ֖יךָand words your

    udevareikhaH1697 →1440 times

  • יִהְי֣וּthey are

    yihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • אֱמֶ֑תtruth

    ʾemetH571 →127 times

  • וַתְּדַבֵּר֙and you have spoken

    vatedaberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • עַבְדְּךָ֔servant your

    ʾavdekhaH5650 →799 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַטּוֹבָ֖הthe good

    hatovahH2896 →538 times

  • הַזֹּֽאת׃<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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

    Exodus 34:6

    Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

    it leads to

    • Psalms 86:15

      But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

    • Joel 2:13

      So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

    • Psalms 103:8–13

      The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

    • Psalms 145:8

      The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

    • Nehemiah 9:17

      They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a…

  • Through

    Numbers 23:19

    God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 15:29

      Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

    • James 1:17

      Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

    • Malachi 3:6

      “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 7 →

This page draws on Augustine of Hippo, City of God 17.12; Calvin, Sermons on 2 Samuel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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