Teks -- 2 Samuel 7:8 (NET)

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.

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Wesley: 2Sa 7:8 - My servant

Lest David should be too much discouraged, or judge himself neglected of God, as one thought unworthy of so great an honour, God here gives him the honourable title of his servant, thereby signifying that he accepted of his service, and good intentions.

TSK: 2Sa 7:8 - I took thee // following // ruler

I took thee : 1Sa 16:11, 1Sa 16:12; 1Ch 17:7; Psa 78:70

following : Heb. after

ruler : 2Sa 6:21, 2Sa 12:7; 1Sa 9:16, 1Sa 10:1

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Poole: 2Sa 7:8 - So shalt thou say unto my servant David // I took thee from the sheep-cote, to be ruler over my people

So shalt thou say unto my servant David: lest David should be too much discouraged, or judge himself neglected and forsaken of God, as one thought unworthy of so great an honour, God here gives him the honourable title of his servant , thereby signifying that he accepted of his service, and of his good intentions, which also was expressed at this time, as it may seem from 1Ki 8:18 , though not in this place.

I took thee from the sheep-cote, to be ruler over my people I advanced thee, and I do not repent of it.

Gill: 2Sa 7:8 - Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David // thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel

Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David,.... For it was taken well at his hands, in part, that it was in his heart, and he had a desire to build an house for God, though he was wrong in determining upon it without seeking the Lord; and lest he should be discouraged by the prohibition of him from building, the following things are observed to assure him it was not from disregard unto him, or displeasure at him, that he would not be employed in this service; since the Lord had given sufficient tokens of his favour to him, and with which he should be content, as having honour enough done him; it was enough that God had raised him up from a low estate to great grandeur and dignity:

thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel; for that was his employment, to keep his father's sheep, before he was taken into Saul's court, and married his daughter, when after his death he came to have the crown, of Israel: now this is said, not to upbraid him with his former meanness, but to observe the goodness of God unto him, and what reason he had for thankfulness, and to look upon himself as a favourite of God, who of a keeper of sheep was made a shepherd of men, to rule and feed them; so Cyrus is called a shepherd, Isa 44:28; and Agamemnon, in Homer ^w, is called "the shepherd of the people".