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2 Samuel 7:21

For your word's sake, and to fulfill your own purpose, you have done this great thing and revealed it 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

20What more can I, David, say to you? You have known your servant, Lord Yahweh.

22Therefore you are great, Lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as we have heard with our own ears.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, 2 Or a human being, that he should change his mind. 1 Has he promised anything without doing it? 2 Has he said he would do something without carrying it out?

Joshua 23:14Now I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not one word has failed to come true of all the good things that Yahweh your God promised about you. All these things have come about for you. Not one of them has failed.

Psalms 138:2I will bow down toward your holy temple 1 and give thanks to your name for your covenant faithfulness and for your trustworthiness. 1 You have made your word and your name more important than anything else. 1

Matthew 24:35Heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Luke 1:72He will do this to show mercy to our fathers 1 and to remember his holy covenant, 1

Luke 12:32Do not fear, little flock, because your Father is very pleased 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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