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2 Samuel 23:5

Indeed, is my family not like this before God? 1 Has he not made an everlasting covenant with me, 1 ordered and sure in every way? 1 Does he not increase my salvation and fulfill my every desire? 1

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In The King James Version

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

In Context

4He will be like the morning light when the sun rises, 1 a morning without clouds, 1 when the tender grass springs up from the earth 1 through bright sunshine after rain. 1

6But the worthless will all be like thorns to be thrown away, 1 because they cannot be gathered by one's hands. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 9:16The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

1 Samuel 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for Yahweh will certainly make my master a sure house, because my master is fighting the battles of Yahweh; and evil will not be found in you so long as you live.

2 Samuel 7:18Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my family that you have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 13:14However Amnon would not listen to her. Since he was stronger than Tamar, he seized her and he slept with her.

2 Samuel 18:14Then Joab said, “I will not wait for you.” So Joab took three javelins in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive and hanging from the oak.

1 Kings 2:24Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah will be put to death today.”

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:2-8

David's Last Words. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the… Read the whole commentary →

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