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2 Samuel 7:21 KJV
2 Samuel · chapter 7 · verse 21
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.2 Samuel 7:21 · King James Version
2 Samuel 7:21 in context
19And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
20And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
21For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
22Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- servantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- word'sdâbâra wordH1697 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- knowyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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We have here the solemn address David made to God, in answer to the gracious message God had sent him. We are not told what he said to Nathan; no doubt he received him very kindly and respectfully as God's messenger. But his answer to God he took himself, and did not send by Nathan.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-29