2 Samuel 23:5 “Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an ever…”

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

World English Bible

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?

American Standard Version

Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.

Geneva Bible 1599

For so shall not mine house be with God: for he hath made with me an euerlasting couenant, perfite in all pointes, and sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire is, that he will not make it growe so.

Darby Translation

Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.

Young's Literal Translation

For — not so [is] my house with God; For — a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For — all my salvation, and all desire, For — He hath not caused [it] to spring up.

Bible in Basic English

For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

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Cross references

“Although”

2 Samuel 7:18 2 Samuel 12:10 2 Samuel 13:14 2 Samuel 13:28 2 Samuel 18:14 1 Kings 1:5

2 Samuel 7:18 · BSB

Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

2 Samuel 12:10 · BSB

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

2 Samuel 13:14 · BSB

But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB

Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valian…

2 Samuel 18:14 · BSB

But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

1 Kings 1:5 · BSB

At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.

“he hath made”

Isaiah 55:3 2 Samuel 7:14–16 Jeremiah 32:40 1 Chronicles 17:11–14 Isaiah 61:8 Ezekiel 37:26

Isaiah 55:3 · BSB

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

2 Samuel 7:14–16 · BSB

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Jeremiah 32:40 · BSB

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

1 Chronicles 17:11–14 · BSB

And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

Isaiah 61:8 · BSB

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Ezekiel 37:26 · BSB

And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

“and sure”

Hebrews 6:19 Acts 13:34 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Samuel 25:28 1 Kings 11:38

Hebrews 6:19 · BSB

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

Acts 13:34 · BSB

In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

1 Samuel 2:35 · BSB

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

1 Samuel 25:28 · BSB

Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.

1 Kings 11:38 · BSB

If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynast…

“all my salvation”

Psalm 62:2 Psalm 119:81

Psalm 62:2 · BSB

He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

Psalm 119:81 · BSB

My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

“desire”

Psalm 27:4 Psalm 63:1–3 Psalm 73:25 Psalm 73:26

Psalm 27:4 · BSB

One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalm 63:1–3 · BSB

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Psalm 73:25 · BSB

Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.

Psalm 73:26 · BSB

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

“to grow”

Isaiah 11:1 Isaiah 27:6 Amos 9:11 Isaiah 4:2 Isaiah 7:14 1 Corinthians 3:6

Isaiah 11:1 · BSB

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 27:6 · BSB

In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Amos 9:11 · BSB

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Isaiah 4:2 · BSB

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 7:14 · BSB

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

1 Corinthians 3:6 · BSB

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

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