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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 7:11

2 Samuel 7:11. And as since the time that I commanded judges In whose days they were sorely afflicted by the Moabites, Canaanites, Midianites, and others. But all this, as the event showed, was intended to be understood with a condition, except they should notoriously forsake God, which they did, and therefore this promise was not fulfilled in that extensive and absolute sense which the words here seem to convey. And have caused thee to rest, &c. Have given thee a quiet possession of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:1-29

God’s promise and David’s prayer (7:1-29)When David expressed his desire to build God a permanent symbolic dwelling place, God reminded him through the prophet Nathan that Israel’s God, Yahweh, was not limited to one land or one place. For that reason his symbolic dwelling place had been a tent, something that was movable and could be set up in any place at all (7:1-7).Nevertheless, because the people of Israel were not spiritually in a condition where the ideal for them could work, God would... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 7:11

He . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . house . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6 , for household or family: i.e. a line of succession. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 7:10-11

2 Samuel 7:10-11. I will appoint—and will plant— I have appointed—and have planted] Houbigant. And move no more— Neither may the sons of iniquity afflict them any more, as they have done before time; and even from the time when I placed judges over my people Israel, 2 Samuel 7:11. I also have given thee rest from all thine enemies, &c. Houbigant. An house— A family. Hamm. in Psalms 113:9. See 2 Samuel 7:27. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 7:11

11. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house—As a reward for his pious purpose, God would increase and maintain the family of David and secure the succession of the throne to his dynasty. [See on :-]. read more

Thomas Constable

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

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 7:10

(10) Will appoint . . . will plant.—There is no change of tense in the original; read, have appointed, . . . have planted.(11) And as since the time.—These words are connected with the last clause of the verse before. The Lord says that He had now given His people rest under David, not allowing “the children of wickedness to afflict them any more as before time,” when they were in Egypt, nor as in the troubled period of the judges, “since the time that I commanded judges,” &c. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Samuel 7:1-29

The Message of the Second Book of Samuel 2 Samuel 7:7 The second book of Samuel does not contain any very definite divisions, but seems most naturally to fall into three parts. In the first, which includes chapters one to eight, we have the account of David's public doings. In the second section, containing chapters nine to twenty, we have the history of David's court life. At chapter twenty the third and closing section of the book begins. This section constitutes an appendix of... read more

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