2 Samuel 7:14

I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

13He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.

15and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,

1 Chronicles 28:6and saith to me, Solomon thy son, he doth build My house, and My courts, for I have fixed on him to Me for a son, and I — I am to him for a father,

Psalms 2:7I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.

Psalms 89:27I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalms 94:12O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

Jeremiah 30:11For with thee [am] I, An affirmation of Jehovah — to save thee, For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have scattered thee, Only, of thee I do not make an end, And I have chastised thee in judgment, And do not entirely acquit thee.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:5-18

God's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1042.) 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord , Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of… Read the whole commentary →

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