2 Samuel 7:18-29 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:18-29

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. When ministers deliver God's message to us, it is not to them, but to God, that our hearts must reply; he understands the language of the heart, and to him we may come boldly. David had no sooner received the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:18

Then went King David in ,.... Into the tabernacle where the ark was, which he had prepared for it, 2 Samuel 6:17 , and sat before the Lord ; before the ark, the symbol of his presence, and prayed, and gave thanks, as follows: from whence it appears that a sitting posture was sometimes used in prayer, of which we have other instances, Exodus 17:11 . It is said F25 Vid. D. Herbert. de Cherbury de Relig. Gent. c. 7. p. 65. that Pythagoras, and also Numa, ordered that worshippers... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:19

And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God ,.... This of raising him to the throne, and settling him on it, was but a small thing in comparison of what he promised to do for him and his: but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come ; since he had not only spoken of a son that should succeed him in the kingdom, but that he would make him an house, and establish his kingdom; yea, that the throne of his kingdom should be established for ever, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:20

And what can David say more unto thee ,.... In a way of self-abasement, or in thankfulness for such wonderful favours, or in prayer for more and other mercies; he wants words, as if he should say, to express his sense of his own nothingness and unworthiness, and to praise the Lord for all his benefits; and so large are the grants and promises made, that there is no room for him to ask for more: for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant ; what a sense he has of his own meanness and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:21

For thy word's sake ,.... For the sake of the promise he had made to him by Samuel, that he should be king, and his kingdom should be established; or for the sake of the Messiah, that should spring from him; the Memra, as the Targum, the essential Word of God; and so the Septuagint version, "because of thy servant", with which agrees the parallel text in 1 Chronicles 17:19 , and according to thine own heart ; of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, of his own grace, as the Arabic... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:22

Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God ,.... In his name, nature, persons, and perfections, purposes, promises, and works: for there is none like thee ; for his essence and attributes, for his greatness and goodness, for what he is in himself, for what he is to his people, and has done for them: neither is there any God beside thee ; there is but one God, the living and true God, the former and maker of all things; all others are but fictitious and factitious gods, see 1 Samuel... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:23

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel ,.... For the knowledge and worship of the true God among them, for laws and or given them, and for blessings of goodness bestowed upon them: whom God went to redeem for a people to himself ; the words are plural, "whom the gods went to redeem"; the Targum is,"they that were sent from the Lord,'meaning Moses and Aaron, of whom Jarchi interprets them, of the first of which it is said, "I have made thee a god unto... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:24

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever ,.... So long as they were obedient to him, and observed his laws and statutes, and abode by his worship and ordinances, otherwise he would write a "loammi" on them, as he has, see Hosea 1:9 , and thou, Lord, art become their God ; their covenant God, they having avouched him to be their God, and he having avouched them to be his people, Deuteronomy 26:17 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:25

And now, O Lord God ,.... From confessions of unworthiness, and of the goodness of God, and a recital of favours conferred on him and the people of Israel, David proceeds to petitions: the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever : he prays for the sure performance of the promise of God respecting himself and his family, and the stability and perpetual continuance of the kingdom in it, and has, no doubt, a special regard to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:26

And let thy name be magnified for ever ,.... David desired the performance of the above things not so much for his own sake, and for the sake of his family, as for the glory of God; his great concern was, that God might be magnified, and his greatness displayed, in making him and his family great; and particularly that he might be magnified and glorified in that famous Son of his, the Messiah, as he has been, John 13:31 ; and by all his people in succeeding ages: saying, the Lord of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:18-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 7:26

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