2 Samuel 7:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu masuklah raja Daud ke dalam, kemudian duduklah ia di hadapan TUHAN sambil berkata: "Siapakah aku ini, ya Tuhan ALLAH, dan siapakah keluargaku, sehingga Engkau membawa aku sampai sedemikian ini?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu masuklah raja Daud ke dalam, kemudian duduklah ia di hadapan TUHAN sambil berkata: "Siapakah aku ini, ya Tuhan ALLAH, dan siapakah keluargaku, sehingga Engkau membawa aku sampai sedemikian ini?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka masuklah raja Daud, lalu tinggal di hadapan hadirat Tuhan serta sembahnya: Ya Tuhan Hua! siapa gerangan hambamu ini dan apa gerangan isi rumah hamba, maka Tuhan sudah membawa akan hamba sampai ke mari?

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then went king Dauid in, and set him downe before the Lord, and sayde: Who am I, O Lorde God? and what is my house that thou hast brought me hyther to? ¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lorde God: but thou hast spoken also of thy seruauntes house for a great whyle: but doth this appertayne to man, O Lorde God? ²⁰ And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou Lorde God knowest thy seruaunt. ²¹ Euen for thy wordes sake, & according to thyne owne heart, hast thou done al these great thinges, to make them knowen vnto thy seruaunt. ²² Wherfore thou art great, O Lorde God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to al that we haue heard with our eares. ²³ And what one people in the earth is lyke thy people, lyke Israel, whose God went and redeemed them to hym selfe, that they myght be his people, and that he myght make hym a name, and do for you great thynges and terrible for thy lande, O Lorde [euen] for thy people which thou redeemedst to thee out of Egypt [euen] from the nations and their gods. ²⁴ For thou hast ordeyned thy people Israel to be thy people for euer, and thou Lorde art become their God. ²⁵ And nowe Lorde God, the worde that thou hast spoken concernyng thy seruaunt and his house, make it good for euer, and do as thou hast saide: ²⁶ And let thy name be magnified for euer of men that shall say, The Lorde of hoastes is the God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruaunt Dauid be stablished before thee. ²⁷ For thou, O Lorde of hoastes, God of Israel, hast tolde in the eare of thy seruaunt, saying, I wyll buylde thee an house: And therefore hath thy seruaunt founde in his heart to pray this prayer vnto thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sat: 1 Chronicles 17:16, Isaiah 37:14

Who am I: Genesis 32:10, Exodus 3:11, Judges 6:15, 1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 15:17, 1 Samuel 18:18, Psalms 8:4, Ephesians 3:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:21 - wondering at 2 Samuel 12:20 - the house 2 Samuel 23:5 - Although 2 Kings 19:15 - prayed 1 Chronicles 29:14 - who am I 2 Chronicles 2:6 - who am I then Psalms 60:6 - rejoice Isaiah 37:15 - General Jeremiah 32:16 - I Prayed Luke 1:48 - regarded Acts 7:46 - found 1 Thessalonians 3:9 - what

Cross-References

Exodus 14:28
And the water returned, and couered the charettes, and the horsemen, and all the hoast of Pharao that came into the sea after them, so that there remayned not one of them.

Job 22:16
Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.

Psalms 69:15
Let not the water fludde drowne me, neither let the deepe swalowe me vp: & let not the pyt shut her mouth vpon me.

Psalms 104:26
There go the shippes, and there is that Leuiathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 y that Pythagoras, and also Numa, ordered that worshippers should sit. So that this act of devotion is not to be limited to any particular posture, though it seems most agreeable either to stand or kneel; and the Jews look upon this to be a peculiar case, and infer from hence that none were allowed to sit in the court but the kings of the house of Judah z; and some of them a will not allow that to them, since the seraphim above are even said to stand, Isaiah 6:2; and suppose the meaning of this to be only that David supported himself in the court; and some render the words, "he remained before the Lord" b; he continued in meditation, prayer, and thanksgiving, and such like acts of devotion, for a considerable time; so the Targum, in 1 Chronicles 17:16.

"King David came and continued in prayer before the Lord:''

and he said, who [am] I, O Lord God? a creature, a sinful creature, a mean and unworthy one, undeserving of a place in the house of God, and of access unto him, and to receive any favour from him, less than the least of all saints, less than the least of all mercies:

and what [is] my house: or family of which he was, the family of Jesse; for though it sprung from a prince in Israel, yet was but low and mean, in comparison of some others, and especially unworthy of the regard of the great God:

that thou hast brought me hitherto? to such grandeur and dignity, as to be king over all Israel and Judah, to have all his enemies subdued under him, and to be at peace and rest from them, and established in his kingdom; and which he signifies the Lord alone had brought him to, through many difficulties and tribulations, and which he could never have attained unto by his own wisdom and power, nor by the assistance of his friends; it was all the Lord's doing, and wondrous in his eyes.

y Vid. D. Herbert. de Cherbury de Relig. Gent. c. 7. p. 65. z T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 69. 2. Maimon & Bartenor. in Misn. Yoma, c. 7. sect. 1. a Midrash in Abarbinel in loc. b וישב "et mansit", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sat before the Lord - In the tent where the ark was. Standing or kneeling was the usual attitude of prayer (1Ki 8:22, 1 Kings 8:54-55; but compare Exodus 17:12). Modern commentators mostly take the word here in the sense of waiting, abiding, not sitting: but sat is the natural rendering. David sat down to meditate, and then rose up to pray.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 7:18. Sat before the Lord — Sometimes, when a Hindoo seeks a favour from a superior, he sits down in his presence in silence; or if he solicits some favour of a god, as riches, children, &c., he places himself before the idol, and remains in a waiting posture, or repeats the name of the god, counting the beads in his necklace. - WARD.