2 Samuel 7:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And 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?

2 Samuel 7:19 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …
1 Chronicles 17:17
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
Psalms 36:7
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
2 Samuel 7:11-16
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. …
Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

Topics

David Fasting Generals, Distinguished Gentleness Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility Israel Meekness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-29)

We have here the solemn address David made to God, in answer to the gracious message God had sent him. We are not told what he said to Nathan; no doubt he received him very kindly and respectfully as God’s messenger. But his answer to God he took himself, and did not send by Nathan. When ministers deliver God’s message to us, it is not to them, but to God, that our hearts must reply; he understand…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. is this the manner of man, O Lord God?--that is, is it customary for men to show such condescension to persons so humble as I am? (See 1Ch 17:17.)