Psalms 89:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 89:3

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:

KJV

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

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Commentary

1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant. This was the ground of the Psalmist's confidence in God's mercy and truth, for he knew that the Lord had made a covenant of grace with David and his seed, and confirmed it by an oath. Here he quotes the very words of God, which were revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, and are a condensation of the original covenant in 2Sa 7:1-29. Well might he write in the former verse, "I have said", when he knew that Jehovah had said, "I have sworn."

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּרַ֣תִּֽי	ka.Ra.ti	I have made	H3772 →
בְ֭רִית	Ve.rit	a covenant	H1285 →
לִבְחִירִ֑י	liv.chi.Ri	to chosen one my	H972 →
נִ֝שְׁבַּ֗עְתִּי	nish.Ba'.ti	I have sworn an oath	H7650 →
לְדָוִ֥ד	le.da.Vid	to David	H1732 →
עַבְדִּֽי׃	'av.Di	servant my	H5650 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 7:21
but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
leads to
- Psalms 110:4
  The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 7:17
  For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
Through
Psalms 132:11
The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 7:12
  And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- Psalms 89:3–4
  You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
- Acts 2:30
  But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
- 2 Chronicles 6:16
  Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the…
Through
1 Kings 8:16
‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 16:1
  Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending…
Through
Psalms 89:28
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
leads to
- Isaiah 55:3
  Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

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