2 Samuel 7:21

Because of your word, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great deeds, so that you would make it known to your servant.

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In The King James Version

For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

In Context

20Therefore, what more will David be able to say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God.

22For this reason, you are magnified, O Lord God. For there is no one like you. And there is no God except you, in all the things that we have heard with our own ears.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:19God is not like a man, so that he would lie, nor is he like a son of man, so that he would be changed. Therefore, having spoken, will he not act? Has he ever spoken, and not fulfilled?

Joshua 23:14Lo, today I am entering the way of the entire earth, and you shall know with all your mind that, out of all the words that the Lord has promised to fulfill for you, not one will pass by unfulfilled.

Psalms 138:2You have known my sitting down and my rising up again.

Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Luke 1:72to accomplish mercy with our fathers, and to call to mind his holy testament,

Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:19-29

David's Prayer for God's Blessing. ( b. c. 1042.) 18 Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord , and he said, Who am I, O Lord God ? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God ; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God ? 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God , knowest thy servant. 21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own… Read the whole commentary →

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