2 Samuel 7:19

7:19 And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. 1  Is this your usual way of dealing with men, 2  O Lord God?

2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 3  so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” 4 

1 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O Lord God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.”

2 tn Heb “and this [is] the law of man”; KJV “is this the manner of man, O Lord God?”; NAB “this too you have shown to man”; NRSV “May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!” This part of the verse is very enigmatic; no completely satisfying solution has yet been suggested. The present translation tries to make sense of the MT by understanding the phrase as a question that underscores the uniqueness of God’s dealings with David as described here. The parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:17 reads differently (see the note there).

3 tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

4 tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”