Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 7:21
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them].
21. For thy word’s sake ] To fulfil Thy promises made to me through Samuel. The reading of 1Ch 17:19, and of the LXX. here, is for thy servant’s sake.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For thy words sake; that thou mightest fulfil thy promises made to me by Samuel and Nathan, and thereby demonstrate thy faithfulness.
According to thine own heart, i. e. of thine own mere liberality and good pleasure, without any desert of mine. So far was David, though now a very gracious man, from thinking his actions meritorious.
To make thy servant know them, i.e. that thy gracious and wonderful purposes of mercy towards me, which lay hid in thine own heart, might be manifested unto me and others by thy most kind words and actions. So it agrees with 1Ch 17:19.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
For thy word’s sake,…. For the sake of the promise he had made to him by Samuel, that he should be king, and his kingdom should be established; or for the sake of the Messiah, that should spring from him; the Memra, as the Targum, the essential Word of God; and so the Septuagint version, “because of thy servant”, with which agrees the parallel text in 1Ch 17:19;
and according to thine own heart; of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, of his own grace, as the Arabic version, and not according to the merits and deserts of David:
hast thou done all these great things; in making him king of Israel, and settling the kingdom in his posterity to the times of the Messiah, who should spring from him:
to make thy servant know [them]; as he now did by Nathan the prophet, what he and his should enjoy for time to come; so that it is not only a blessing to have favours designed, purposed, and promised, but to have the knowledge of them, to know the things that are freely given of God.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
21. For thy word’s sake The word is the promise of the perpetuity of the throne of David, which was magnified before all Israel, and in later times referred to as the “sure mercies of David.” The Divine purpose to exalt the throne of David involved, also, the purpose of magnifying the word of prophecy.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Sa 7:21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them].
Ver. 21. For thy word’s sake,] i.e., For thy Christ’s sake, saith Junius: or for thy promise’s sake made unto me by Nathan, as 2Sa 7:25 .
And according to thine own heart, &c.,
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thy word’s: Num 23:19, Deu 9:5, Jos 23:14, Jos 23:15, Psa 115:1, Psa 138:2, Mat 24:35, Luk 1:54, Luk 1:55, Luk 1:72
according: Mat 11:26, Luk 10:21, Luk 12:32, 1Co 1:1, Eph 1:9, Eph 3:11