KJV King James Version
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them].
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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].
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
WEB World English Bible
For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
ASV American Standard Version
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Because of Thy word, and according to Thy heart, Thou hast done all this greatness, to cause Thy servant to know it.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 7
18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
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].
22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23 And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
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בַּעֲב֤וּרH5668 · a.vurfor the sake ofדְּבָֽרְךָ֙H1697 · da.varwordוּֽכְלִבְּךָ֔H3820 · levheartעָשִׂ֕יתָH6213 · a.sahto make: doאֵ֥תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallהַגְּדוּלָּ֖הH1420 · ge.du.lahgreatnessהַזֹּ֑אתH2063 · zotthisלְהוֹדִ֖יעַH3045 · ya.dato knowאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃H5650 · e.vedservant/slave
Cross-references
Psalm 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.Ephesians 3:11According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:Psalm 115:1Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth’s sake.1 Corinthians 1:1Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother,Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.Ephesians 1:9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:Deuteronomy 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Luke 10:21In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.Joshua 23:14-15And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.Matthew 11:26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.Luke 1:72To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?Luke 1:54-55He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of [his] mercy;
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