You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
Parallel translations
- WEB who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
- KJV Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
- NKJV You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
- NASB You who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You promised him; You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
- NLT You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.
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Quick answer
Solomon notes that God has kept His promise to David, fulfilling with His hand what He spoke. It is concrete evidence of divine faithfulness.
Overview
Solomon points to the fulfilled promise to David as proof of God's reliability, 'as it is today.' The God who speaks also accomplishes. Such demonstrated faithfulness becomes the basis for the petitions that follow, and assures believers that God's promises in Christ are equally sure.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 2 Sam 7:16Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”
- 1 Kgs 8:15and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
- 2 Sam 7:12And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Chr 6:14–15and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
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Solomon's glory, wisdom, and temple where God's presence dwells are a shadow of the greater Son of David — 'one greater than Solomon is here' — and of the true Temple, Christ himself.
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