2 Samuel 7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 7:4-17

God’s purpose to honor David 7:4-17The promises Yahweh made to David here are an important key to understanding God’s program for the future.God rejected David’s suggestion that he build a temple for the Lord and gave three reasons. First, there was no pressing need to do so since the ark had resided in tents since the Exodus (2 Samuel 7:6). The tent it currently occupied was the one David had pitched for it in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:17), not the tabernacle that stood then at Gibeon (1... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 7:18-29

David’s prayer of thanksgiving 7:18-29"The heartfelt response of King David to the oracle of the prophet Nathan is one of the most moving prayers in Scripture . . ." [Note: Youngblood, p. 896.] Structurally the prayer moves from thanksgiving for the present favor (2 Samuel 7:18-21), to praise for what God had done in the past (2 Samuel 7:22-24), to petition for future fulfillment of God’s promises (2 Samuel 7:25-29). David included humility (2 Samuel 7:18), gratitude (2 Samuel 7:19), praise (2... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 7:1-29

The Promise of God to David in Requital of his Desire to Build the TempleThis chapter affords an excellent illustration of the way in which prophecy has often two quite distinct applications, one to the more immediate and the other to the more distant future. The primary reference is to Solomon (see especially 2 Samuel 7:12-14), but the prophecy looks beyond him to a greater Son, of whom he was only an emblem and type. We get a somewhat similar instance in Isaiah 7:14-17 (see especially 2... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7

VII.The parallel account to this chapter is in 1 Chronicles 17:0, and the differences are very slight. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:1

(1) Had given him rest.—No intimation is given of how long this may have been after the events narrated in the last chapter; but it is evident that this narrative is placed here, not because it followed chronologically, but because it is closely related in subject, and the historian, after telling of the removal of the ark, wished to record in that connection David’s further purposes in the same direction. It must have been after the successful close of David’s principal foreign wars—“rest... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:2

(2) Nathan.—This is the first mention of him, but he was already a confidential counsellor of the king, and became prominent later in this reign and in the opening of that of Solomon (2 Samuel 12:0; 1 Kings 1:10; 1 Kings 1:12; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Kings 1:38). Nathan “the prophet” and Gad “the seer” wrote parts of the history of this and the succeeding reign (1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29).Within curtains.—This is the word used in Exodus 26:0 and 36 for the covering of the tabernacle. The... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:3

(3) Go, do all that is in thine heart.—Nathan naturally considered that it must be right for David to execute his pious purpose; but he spoke only according to his own sense of right, and not by Divine direction. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:4

(4) That night.—The night following Nathan’s conversation with David, when the prophet’s mind would have been full of what he had heard, and thus prepared for the Divine communication. That communication is distinctly marked as coming from a source external to the prophet himself, by its being in direct opposition to his own view already expressed. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:5

(5) Shalt thou build?—The question implies the negative, as it is expressed in 1 Chronicles 17:5, and as it is here translated in the LXX. and Syriac.After David was told that he should not be allowed to build a temple for God as he desired, he is promised that God will make for him a sure house, and will accept the building of the temple from his son. David is called “my servant,” an expression used only of those eminent and faithful in the service of God, as Moses and Joshua, thus showing—as... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:7

(7) The tribes.—In the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 17:6, the word is “judges,” the difference in Hebrew being only of a single similar letter. But a like use of “tribes” for the judges sprung from them may be found in Psalms 78:67-68; 1 Chronicles 28:4. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 7:4-17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 7:18-29

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 7:1-29

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:3

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 7:7

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