King James Version
2 Samuel 7:13 in the King James Version says “He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.”
2 Samuel 7:13 · KJV
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“an house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“for my name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“and I will stablish”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of his kingdom”
H4467dominion, i.e., (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
“for”
H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“ever”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
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