Verse 21
2 Samuel 7:21
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
21
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בַּ/עֲב֤וּר דְּבָֽרְ/ךָ֙ וּֽ/כְ/לִבְּ/ךָ֔ עָשִׂ֕יתָ אֵ֥ת כָּל הַ/גְּדוּלָּ֖ה הַ/זֹּ֑את לְ/הוֹדִ֖יעַ אֶת עַבְדֶּֽ/ךָ
English Translation
For the sake of your word and in your heart you have done all this greatness to make known to your servant.
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Chapter 7 Context
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And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his e...
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that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God...
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And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for Jehovah is with thee.
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And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,
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Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
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for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt,...
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In all places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the...
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Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee fr...
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and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before...
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10
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their o...
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and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to re...
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When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after the...
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He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod...
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but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee...
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And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee: thy throne shall be establishe...
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According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
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Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what...
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19
And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy serva...
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And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah.
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21
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make...
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Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God (Elohim): for there is none like thee, neither is there any...
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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God (Elohim) went to red...
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And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever; and thou, Je...
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And now, O Jehovah God (Elohim), the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerni...
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And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God (Elohim) over Israel; and the...
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For thou, O Jehovah of hosts, the God (Elohim) of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I wi...
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And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God (Elohim), and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this...
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now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever bef...
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