2 Samuel 7:1

God’s promise to David

1 When the king was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,

2 Samuel 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 7:1

And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house
Which Hiram's servants had built for him, having no occasion to go out to war:

and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
both at home and abroad; though this rest and peace did not last long; for the next chapter gives an account of each of the people he was engaged in war with, ( 2 Samuel 8:1-18 ) .

2 Samuel 7:1 In-Context

1 When the king was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,

2 the king said to the prophet Nathan, "Look! I'm living in a cedar palace, but God's chest is housed in a tent!"

3 Nathan said to the king, "Go ahead and do whatever you are thinking, because the LORD is with you."

4 But that very night the LORD's word came to Nathan:

5 Go to my servant David and tell him: This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build the temple for me to live in.

Footnotes

• [a] Or house; the same Heb word (beth) appears with different nuances (house, temple, palace, dynasty, family) in 7:2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, 18, 19, 25-26, 27, 29.