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26 (A)that Your name may be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is God over Israel’; and the house of Your [a]servant David shall be established before You. 27 For You, O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave, saying, ‘(B)I will build you a house’; therefore Your slave has found courage in his heart to pray this prayer to You. 28 So now, O Lord Yahweh, You are God, and (C)Your words are truth, and You have [b]promised this good thing to Your slave.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:26 Or slave, cf. 7:25; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  2. 2 Samuel 7:28 Or spoken