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2 Samuel 7:10

King James Version (KJV)

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Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

2 Samuel 7:10 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:10

Theological / Devotional

Afflict them any more. All through the period of the judges the Israelites had been suffering affliction at the hand of their enemies. This was not in harmony with the purposes of God, and the Lord now promised them a period of cessation from oppression. The promise, however, was conditional. A glorious destiny would be theirs only on condition that they work in harmony with the plans and objectives of heaven. But because of a persistent refusal to accept their high privilege the Lord’s professed people were repeatedly allowed to fall into the hands of their enemies until they were destroyed as a nation and rejected as God’s chosen people.

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