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Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 7

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2 Samuel 7 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Samuel 7 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 7 of 2 Samuel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Now it came about when the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
  2. that the king said to 2Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in 3a house of cedar, but the ark of God 4dwells within tent curtains.”
  3. Nathan said to the king, “5Go, do all that is in your mind, for the LORD is with you.”
  4. ¶ But in the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
  5. “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD, “6Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in?
  6. For 7I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about 8in a tent, even in a [a]tabernacle.
  7. 9Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, 10which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’
  8. ¶ “Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “11I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, 12to be ruler over My people Israel.
  9. 13I have been with you wherever you have gone and 14have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.
  10. I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and 15will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, 16nor will the [b]wicked afflict them any more as formerly,
  11. even 17from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and 18I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD also declares to you that 19the LORD will make a house for you.
  12. 20When your days are complete and you 21lie down with your fathers, 22I will raise up your [c]descendant after you, who will come forth from [d]you, and I will establish his kingdom.
  13. 23He shall build a house for My name, and 24I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  14. 25I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; 26when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,
  15. but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, 27as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
  16. 28Your house and your kingdom shall endure before [e]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’”
  17. In accordance with all these words and all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
  18. ¶ Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, “29Who am I, O Lord [f]GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
  19. And yet this was insignificant in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, 30for You have spoken also of the house of Your servant concerning the distant future. And 31this is the [g]custom of man, O Lord GOD.
  20. Again what more can David say to You? For 32You know Your servant, O Lord GOD!
  21. 33For the sake of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness to let Your servant know.
  22. For this reason 34You are great, O Lord GOD; for 35there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, 36according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  23. And 37what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and 38to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before 39Your people whom 40You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?
  24. For 41You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and 42You, O LORD, have become their God.
  25. Now therefore, O LORD God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as You have spoken,
  26. 43that Your name may be magnified forever, by saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel’; and may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
  27. For You, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have [h]made a revelation to Your servant, saying, ‘44I will build you a house’; therefore Your servant has found [i]courage to pray this prayer to You.
  28. Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and 45Your words are truth, and You have [j]promised this good thing to Your servant.
  29. Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken; and 46with Your blessing may the house of Your servant be blessed forever.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit dwelling place
  2. ^ Lit sons of wickedness
  3. ^ Lit seed
  4. ^ Lit your bowels
  5. ^ So with Gr and some ancient mss; M.T. you
  6. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so through out the ch
  7. ^ Or law
  8. ^ Lit uncovered the ear of
  9. ^ Lit his heart
  10. ^ Or spoken

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ch 17:1-27
  2. ^ 2Sa 7:17; 12:1; 1Ki 1:22; 1Ch 29:29; 2Ch 9:29
  3. ^ 2Sa 5:11
  4. ^ Ex 26:1
  5. ^ 1Ki 8:17, 18; 1Ch 22:7
  6. ^ 1Ki 5:3, 4; 8:19
  7. ^ Jos 18:1; 1Ki 8:16
  8. ^ Ex 40:18, 34
  9. ^ Le 26:11, 12
  10. ^ 2Sa 5:2
  11. ^ 1Sa 16:11, 12; Ps 78:70, 71
  12. ^ 2Sa 6:21
  13. ^ 1Sa 5:10
  14. ^ Ps 18:37-42
  15. ^ Ex 15:17; Is 5:2, 7
  16. ^ Ps 89:22, 23; Is 60:18
  17. ^ Jg 2:14-16; 1Sa 12:9-11
  18. ^ 2Sa 7:1
  19. ^ 1Sa 25:28; 2Sa 7:27
  20. ^ 1Ki 2:1
  21. ^ De 31:16; Ac 13:36
  22. ^ 1Ki 8:20; Ps 132:11
  23. ^ 1Ki 6:12; 8:19
  24. ^ Is 9:7; 49:8
  25. ^ Ps 89:26, 27; 2Co 6:18; Heb 1:5
  26. ^ 1Ki 11:34; Ps 89:30-33
  27. ^ 1Sa 15:23; 16:14
  28. ^ 2Sa 7:13; Ps 89:36, 37
  29. ^ Ex 3:11; 1Sa 18:18
  30. ^ 2Sa 7:11-16; 1Ch 17:17
  31. ^ Is 55:8, 9
  32. ^ 1Sa 16:7; Jn 21:17
  33. ^ 1Ch 17:19; Eph 4:32
  34. ^ De 3:24; Ps 48:1; 86:10
  35. ^ Ex 15:11; 1Sa 2:2
  36. ^ Ex 10:2; Ps 44:1
  37. ^ De 4:32-38
  38. ^ De 10:21
  39. ^ De 15:15
  40. ^ De 9:26
  41. ^ De 32:6
  42. ^ Ge 17:7, 8; Ex 6:7
  43. ^ Ps 72:18, 19; Mt 6:9
  44. ^ 2Sa 7:13
  45. ^ Ex 34:6; Jn 17:17
  46. ^ Nu 6:24-26

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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