King James Version
2 Samuel 7:21 in the King James Version says “For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know t...” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.”
2 Samuel 7:21 · KJV
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? manner: Heb. law
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
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.
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?
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, crossed, i.e., (abstractly) transit; used only adverbially, on account of, in order that
“For thy word's”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“sake and according to thine own heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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