2 Samuel 7:16

16 Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, ^[a] and your throne will be established forever.”

2 Samuel 7:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 7:16

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever
before thee
That is, both his family and his government should be perpetuated, or he should always have one of his family to sit upon his throne; the accomplishment of which, in the beginning of it, he saw with his eyes in his son Solomon, and with an eye of faith in his greater Son the Messiah, in whom only these words will have their complete fulfilment; and so Abarbinel says this vision or prophecy is explained by some of the days of the Messiah; and this house and kingdom, in ( 1 Chronicles 17:14 ) ; are called by the Lord "my" house, and "my" kingdom:

thy throne shall be established for ever;
which is a repetition of the same in other words for the confirmation of it.

2 Samuel 7:16 In-Context

14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

15 But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

16 Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

17 So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire revelation.

18 Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

Footnotes

• [a] Some Hebrew manuscripts and LXX; most Hebrew manuscripts you