2 Samuel 7:21 Parallel Translations

You've done this great thing because of your promise and your own desire. You made it known to me.(GOD'S WORD®)

For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

ASV:

For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

BBE:

Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.

DBY:

For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

ERV:

For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

JPS:

For Thy word's sake, and according to Thine own heart, hast Thou wrought all this greatness, to make Thy servant know it.

WBS:

For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

WEB:

For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

YLT:

Because of Thy word, and according to Thy heart, Thou hast done all this greatness, to cause Thy servant to know it.

2 Samuel 7:21 Cross References

XREF:

1 Chronicles 17:19 "O LORD, for Your servant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

7:21 Thy word's sake - That thou mightest fulfil thy promises made to me, and thereby demonstrate thy faithfulness. Own heart - Or thy own mere liberality and good pleasure, without any desert of mine. So far was David, though a very gracious man, from thinking his actions meritorious.

MHC:

7:18-29 David's prayer is full of the breathings of devout affection toward God. He had low thoughts of his own merits. All we have, must be looked upon as Divine gifts. He speaks very highly and honourably of the Lord's favours to him. Considering what the character and condition of man is, we may be amazed that God should deal with him as he does. The promise of Christ includes all; if the Lord God be ours, what more can we ask, or think of? Eph 3:20. He knows us better than we know ourselves; therefore let us be satisfied with what he has done for us. What can we say more for ourselves in our prayers, than God has said for us in his promises? David ascribes all to the free grace of God. Both the great things He had done for him, and the great things He had made known to him. All was for his word's sake, that is, for the sake of Christ the eternal Word. Many, when they go to pray, have their hearts to seek, but David's heart was found, that is, it was fixed; gathered in from its wanderings, entirely engaged to the duty, and employed in it. That prayer which is from the tongue only, will not please God; it must be found in the heart; that must be lifted up and poured out before God. He builds his faith, and hopes to speed, upon the sureness of God's promise. David prays for the performance of the promise. With God, saying and doing are not two things, as they often are with men; God will do as he hath said. The promises of God are not made to us by name, as to David, but they belong to all who believe in Jesus Christ, and plead them in his name.

CONC:

Cause Greatness Hast Heart Promise Sake Servant Word's Worked Wrought

Cause Great Greatness Heart Promise Sake Servant Word Word's Worked Wrought

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