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2 Samuel 23:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow? "

2 Samuel 23:5

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3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

4 shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

5 Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?

6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.

7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

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2 Samuel 23:1

"Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:"

2 Samuel 23:2

"“The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue."

2 Samuel 23:3

"The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,"

2 Samuel 23:4

"shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’"

2 Samuel 23:6

"But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand."

2 Samuel 23:7

"The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”"

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