2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty ¹  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!” ² 

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ³  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ⁴  the men who opposed ⁵  my lord the king!”

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¹ tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

² tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”

³ tn Heb “Peace.”

⁴ tn Heb “delivered over.”

⁵ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”