2 Samuel 7:8

Contextual Overview

⁴That night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying: ⁴ But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: ⁴Now it happened in the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ But in the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ And the same night the worde of the Lorde came vnto Nathan, saying: ⁴ But that night, the Lord 's word came to Nathan: ⁴ And it happened in that night, the Word of Jehovah was to Nathan, saying, ⁴ But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, ⁴ It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ And it came to passe that night, that the word of the Lord came vnto Nathan, saying;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I took thee: 1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Chronicles 17:7, Psalms 78:70

following: Heb. after

ruler: 2 Samuel 6:21, 2 Samuel 12:7, 1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 10:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:8 - set them 1 Samuel 2:10 - he shall 2 Samuel 14:13 - people 2 Samuel 22:49 - thou also 2 Samuel 23:1 - raised 1 Kings 3:6 - great 1 Kings 8:16 - I chose David 1 Chronicles 14:2 - his kingdom 1 Chronicles 28:4 - chose me 2 Chronicles 1:8 - Thou has showed 2 Chronicles 32:28 - cotes Psalms 21:5 - glory Psalms 89:19 - Then Psalms 89:21 - With Psalms 113:7 - needy Proverbs 25:6 - in the presence Isaiah 55:3 - the sure Amos 7:15 - took Luke 1:48 - regarded Acts 7:46 - found Acts 13:22 - he raised

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David,.... For it was taken well at his hands, in part, that it was in his heart, and he had a desire to build an house for God, though he was wrong in determining upon it without seeking the Lord; and lest he should be discouraged by the prohibition of him from building, the following things are observed to assure him it was not from disregard unto him, or displeasure at him, that he would not be employed in this service; since the Lord had given sufficient tokens of his favour to him, and with which he should be content, as having honour enough done him; it was enough that God had raised him up from a low estate to great grandeur and dignity:

thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel; for that was his employment, to keep his father's sheep, before he was taken into Saul's court, and married his daughter, when after his death he came to have the crown, of Israel: now this is said, not to upbraid him with his former meanness, but to observe the goodness of God unto him, and what reason he had for thankfulness, and to look upon himself as a favourite of God, who of a keeper of sheep was made a shepherd of men, to rule and feed them; so Cyrus is called a shepherd, Isaiah 44:28; and Agamemnon, in Homer w, is called "the shepherd of the people".

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