2 Samuel 23:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־לֹא־כֵ֥ן בֵּיתִ֖י עִם־אֵ֑ל כּ‪י֩ בְרִ֨ית עוֹלָ֜ם שָׂ֣ם לִ֗י עֲרוּכָ֤ה בַכֹּל֙ וּשְׁמֻרָ֔ה כִּֽי־כָל־יִשְׁעִ֥י וְכָל־חֵ֖פֶץ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יַצְמִֽיחַ

Transliteration

For lōʾ-kēn bêṯî ʿim-ʾēl; for bərîṯ ʿôlām śām lî, ʿărûḵāh bakkōl and šəmurāh; for kol-yišʿî and kol-ḥēfeṣ for lōʾ yaṣmîaḥ

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *kēn*: adverb - so/thus
• *bêṯî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my house
• *ʿim*: preposition - with
• *ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God
• *bərîṯ*: noun, feminine singular construct - covenant of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - eternity/everlasting
• *śām*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he placed/established
• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to/for me
• *ʿărûḵāh*: qal passive participle, feminine singular - arranged/ordered
• *bakkōl*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in everything
• *û-*: conjunction - and
• *šəmurāh*: qal passive participle, feminine singular - kept/preserved
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
• *yišʿî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my salvation
• *ḥēfeṣ*: noun, masculine singular - pleasure/delight/desire
• *yaṣmîaḥ*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will cause to grow/sprout

Word Meanings

• *bərîṯ*: covenant/agreement/alliance
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/eternal/perpetual
• *śām*: placed/established/appointed/made
• *ʿărûḵāh*: arranged/ordered/prepared
• *šəmurāh*: kept/preserved/guarded
• *yišʿî*: my salvation/deliverance/victory
• *ḥēfeṣ*: pleasure/delight/desire/purpose
• *yaṣmîaḥ*: cause to grow/sprout/spring forth

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
• 2 Sam 7:14-16 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
• Isa 11:1 : 1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
• Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
• Isa 61:8 : 8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Jer 33:25-26 : 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
• Ezek 37:26 : 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
• Acts 13:34 : 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he hath spoken on this wise, I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.
• 1 Cor 3:6-7 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
• Heb 6:19 : 19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
• 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.
• 2 Sam 7:18 : 18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
• 2 Sam 12:10 : 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
• 2 Sam 13:14 : 14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• 2 Sam 18:14 : 14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
• 1 Kgs 1:5 : 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
• 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now therefore as Jehovah liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day. 25 And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.
• 1 Kgs 11:6-8 : 6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
• 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in mine eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
• 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
• 1 Chr 17:11-14 : 11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever. 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee; 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne shall be established for ever.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.
• Ps 62:2 : 2 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Ps 63:1-3 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is. 2 So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee.
• Ps 73:25-26 : 25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
• Ps 89:3 : 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:
• Ps 89:28-29 : 28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
• Ps 119:81 : 81 KAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; [But] I hope in thy word.
• Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.