For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
- BSB For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.
- NKJV For You, O my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray before You.
- NASB For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build him a house; therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You.
- NLT “O my God, I have been bold enough to pray to you because you have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him—a dynasty of kings!
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Quick answer
David says God's own revelation that he would build David a house gave him courage to pray. It teaches that God's promises embolden prayer.
Overview
David grounds his bold prayer in God's prior revelation that he would build David a 'house,' or dynasty. Because God spoke first, David finds courage to ask. This pattern shapes Christian prayer: we approach God confidently because of his promises in Christ (Hebrews 4:16; 1 John 5:14-15).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Sam 9:15Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
- Ezek 36:37Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
- Ps 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
- 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
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