2 Samuel 7:1-16
- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Chapter CXVIII, Dialogue With Trypho, Justin Martyr. (c 160)
- III.20, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 209)
- X.22, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen], Origen. (c.230)
- Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "He promises them quietness, if they will walk in his fear and obedience."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "Nathan here did not speak as a prophet, but as a godly man, encouraging David by his private judgment. We ought to do all we can to encourage and promote the good purposes and designs of others, and, as we have opportunity, to forward a good work."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "The design being pious and the thing not forbidden by God, Nathan hastily approves it, before he had consulted God about it, as both he and David ought to have done in a matter of so great moment. And therefore Nathan meets with this rebuke, that he is forced to acknowledge his error, and recant it. For the holy prophets did not speak all things by prophetic inspiration, but some things by an human spirit."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "Cedar was the rarest and most valuable timber. The elegance and splendor of his own royal mansion, contrasted with the mean and temporary tabernacle in which the ark of God was placed, distressed the pious mind of David."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Commentary, 2 Samuel 7:1-11 (Advent 4), Elna K. Solvang, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2011.
- "Israel's hope does not rest in a dynasty but there is hope that from the house of David will come forth trustworthy leadership, attentive to the voices of those in need, and in faithful service to God's goals for Israel and the world."
- "David: King of Empire," Debbie Blue, The Hardest Question, 2011.
- "House of cedar and gold."
- "The Politics of 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 and Luke 1:26-38," Timothy F. Simpson, Political Theology, 2011.
- "Strange Relations," John C. Holbert, Patheos, 2011.
- 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series B, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
-
Commentary, 2 Samuel 7:1-14a (Pentecost 7), Richard W. Nysse,
Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2009.
- "The opening clause of 2 Samuel 7 sets up a tension that is explored throughout the chapter."
-
The Old Testament Readings:
2 Samuel 7:1-14a. Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
- "What David was proposing was nothing short of a major upheaval to the way people understood the God of Israel and the way power was distributed within the society."
- "God the Exegete," Tim Bulkeley, 5 Minute Bible (podcast).
-
The Old Testament Readings:
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16. Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
- "...the Lord maintains divine freedom to the point which allows him to lead his people and all creation to new life. This is what we anticipate in the annunciation of the birth of Jesus."
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2 Samuel 7:1-14a, Pentecost 7B,
Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in
Australia.
- "2 Sam 7 is one of the high points of the author?s theology and there is so much that is compressed into this chapter."
-
"Divine Favor,"
"Promises from the Past,"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Lectionary Resource for Catholics.
- "God declared David "his son." Through Christ, we are sons and daughters of God. How have you enjoyed God's favor this week? How can you show others they, too, are children of the Almighty?"
- "Building
God's House (2 Samuel 7:1-29)," by Robert Deffinbaugh at the
Biblical Studies Foundation.
- "No matter how high and lofty our goals and plans may be, God's plans are greater."
- Commentary, 2 Samuel 7:1-11 (Advent 4), Elna K. Solvang, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2011.
- Articles & Background:
- "Rethinking
Church Models through Scripture," Walter Brueggemann. Theology
Today, 1991.
- "There is no one single or normative model of church life. It is dangerous and distorting for the church to opt for an absolutist model that it insists upon in every circumstance. Moreover, we are more prone to engage in such reductionism, if we do not keep alive a conversation concerning competing and conflicting models. Or to put it positively, models of the church must not be dictated by cultural reality, but they must be voiced and practiced in ways that take careful account of the particular time and circumstance into which God's people are called. Every model of the church must be critically contextual. "
-
"Society and
the Promise to David: Reading 2 Samuel 7," William M. Schniedewind,
UCLA. Bible and Interpretation.
- "Through the lens of 2 Samuel 7, the Promise to David, we gain a glimpse into the intellectual history of ancient Israel and early Judaism. Throughout the literary history of the Promise, the symbiotic relationship among text, reader, and society evolves."
-
"A
Crown, Some Oil, And A Throne: Coronation in Ancient Israel." From Jewish
Heritage Online Magazine's Topic of the Month:
Crown.
- "The king of Israel, though never deified in the religion of ancient Israel, is nonetheless sanctified by his coronation and anointing. He is now deemed empowered by God to perform religious functions, and in fact - many kings do exactly that. David sets up the first altar for God in Jerusalem and conceives the project of building Him a Temple...The kings even perform acts reserved to the priest - offering sacrifices and blessing the people in the sanctuary."
- "Rethinking
Church Models through Scripture," Walter Brueggemann. Theology
Today, 1991.
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Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Bodner, Keith,
"Nathan: Prophet, Politician and Novelist?" Journal for the Study of
the Old Testament, 2001. (See especially section beginning on page 44.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Brueggemann,
Walter, "Rethinking Church Models through Scripture," Theology Today,
1991.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Cartledge, Tony W., "A House for God
and a House for David," Word & World, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Craig, Kenneth M.,
Jr.,
"The Character(ization) of God in 2 Samuel 7:1-17," Semeia, 1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Firth, David G., "Shining the Lamp:
The Rhetoric of 2 Samuel 5-24," Tyndale Bulletin, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - George, Mark K.,
"Fluid Stability in Second Samuel 7," Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Goldsmith, Dale,
"Acts 13:33-37: a Pesher on II Samuel 7," Journal of Biblical
Literature, 1968.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Grisanti, Michael A., "The Davidic
Covenant," Master's Seminary Journal, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kruse, Heinz,
"David's Covenant," Vetus Testamentum, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Laato, Antti,
"Second Samuel 7 and Ancient Near Eastern Royal Ideology," Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Levenson, Jon D., "A Technical
Meaning for N'M in the Hebrew Bible," Vetus Testamentum,
1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Loretz, Oswald,
"The Perfectum Copulativum in 2 Sm 7,9-11," Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 1961.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McCarthy, Dennis J.,
SJ.,
"II Samuel 7 and the Structure of the Deuteronomic History," Journal
of Biblical Literature, 1965.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McKenzie, John L., S.J.,
"The Dynastic Oracle: II Samuel 7," Theological Studies, 1947.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McKenzie, John L., S.J.,
"Royal Messianism," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1957.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Murray, D.F.,
"MQWM and the Future of Israel in 2 Samuel VII 10," Vetus
Testamentum, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Norris, Kathleen,
"Open Paths," The Christian Century, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Roehrs, Walter R., "Divine Covenants:
Their Structure and Function," Concordia Journal, 1988.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Tsevat, Matitiahu,
"Studies in the Book of Samuel, III. The Steadfast House: What Was David
Promised in II Sam. 7:11b-16?" Hebrew Union College Annual, 1963.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Vanderhooft, David,
"Dwelling beneath the Sacred Place: A Proposal for Reading 2 Samuel 7:10,"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Bodner, Keith,
"Nathan: Prophet, Politician and Novelist?" Journal for the Study of
the Old Testament, 2001. (See especially section beginning on page 44.)
- Reviews:
- Schniedewind, William M., Society and the Promise to David: The Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1-17. (Oxford University Press, 1999) Review by Steven L. McKenzie, Review of Biblical Literature.
- Eslinger, Lyle, House of God or House of David: The Rhetoric of 2 Samuel 7. Sheffield, 1994. Review by Peter D. Miscall, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1995.
- Sermons:
- No More Camping Out, Schuyler Rhodes, SermonStudio
- With Children:
- "Children's Literature: A Resource for Ministry," December 18, 2011, Union Presbyterian Seminary. Connections: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 and The Carpenter's Gift by David Rubel.
- Worshiping with Children, Advent 4B, Including children in the congregation's worship, using the Revised Common Lectionary, Carolyn C. Brown, 2011.
- "King David," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts.
- "God Calls David to Be King of Israel," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
- "God's Covenant with David," children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian Center.
- Drama:
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- "The House Beloved," 2 Samuel 7, YouTube video, David Coleman, 2011.
- Images for this week's readings, Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
- Hymns and Music:
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of 2 Samuel
