2 Samuel 7:19

19. For a great while to come Reference to the for ever of 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Samuel 7:16.

Is this the manner of man Rather, This is the law of man. This gracious condescension of God in bestowing these promised blessings upon his servant David and his house is a sublime illustration of that law of love which should ever govern man that law which says, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Leviticus 19:18. As God dealt with David in his infinite grace, let man do unto his neighbour according to the ability which he may have. “When God the Lord,” says Hengstenberg, “in his treatment of poor mortals, follows the rule which he has laid down for the conduct of men one towards another when he shows himself kind and affectionate this must fill with adoring amazement those who know themselves and God.”