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2 Samuel 7:19 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord GOD! "
2 Samuel 7:19
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
17 Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
18 Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord GOD!
20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD.
21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
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2 Samuel 7:1
"When the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around,"
2 Samuel 7:2
"the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”"
2 Samuel 7:3
"Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”"
2 Samuel 7:4
"That same night, the LORD’s word came to Nathan, saying,"
2 Samuel 7:5
"“Go and tell my servant David, ‘The LORD says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?"
2 Samuel 7:6
"For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle."
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