2 Samuel 7:14

I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealing perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

In Context

13he builds a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom for all time.

15and My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before you,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,

1 Chronicles 28:6and says to me, Your son Solomon builds My house and My courts, for I have fixed on him [to be] to Me for a son, and I am to him for a father.

Psalms 2:7I declare concerning a statute: YHWH said to me, “You [are] My Son, today I have brought You forth.

Psalms 89:27I also appoint him firstborn, || Highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,

Jeremiah 30:11For I [am] with you,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “To save you, || For I make an end of all the nations || To where I have scattered you, || Only, I do not make an end of you, || And I have disciplined you in judgment, || And do not entirely acquit you.”

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:5-18

God's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1042.) 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord , Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of… Read the whole commentary →

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