Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
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Gill's Exposition
Although my house be not so with God,.... So bright, and flourishing, and prosperous as the government of the just ruler before described; or is not "right" (m) with God, meaning his family, in which…
Barnes' Notes
Although my house ... - The sense of this clause (according to the the King James Version) will be that David comparing the actual state of his family and kingdom during the later years of trouble and…
Adam Clarke
Although my house be not so with God - Instead of כן ken, so, read כן kun, established; and let the whole verse be considered as an interrogation, including a positive assertion; and the sense will be…
Cambridge Bible
For is not my house thus with God?
for an eternal covenant hath he made for me,
ordered in all and secured:
for all my salvation and all good pleasure
shall he not cause it to spring forth?
This…
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