New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Samuel 23:1-7

1Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse declares, 1The man who was raised on high, 2The anointed of the God of Jacob And the sweet psalmist of Israel, declares,2“3The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me, And His word was on my tongue.3The God of Israel said it; 4The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘5He who rules over mankind righteously, 6Who rules in the fear of God,4 7Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the fresh grass springs out of the earth From sunshine after rain.’5Is my house not indeed so with God? For 8He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Properly ordered in all things, and secured; For will He not indeed make All my salvation and all my delight grow?6 9But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;7Instead, the man who touches them Must be 10armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And 11they will be completely burned with fire in their 12place.”

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Notes

1. 2 Samuel 23:1 2 Sam 7:8, 9; Ps 78:70, 71 ↩
2. 2 Samuel 23:1 1 Sam 16:12, 13; Ps 89:20 ↩
3. 2 Samuel 23:2 Matt 22:43; 2 Pet 1:21 ↩
4. 2 Samuel 23:3 2 Sam 22:2, 3, 32 ↩
5. 2 Samuel 23:3 Ps 72:1-3; Is 11:1-5 ↩
6. 2 Samuel 23:3 2 Chr 19:7, 9 ↩
7. 2 Samuel 23:4 Judg 5:31; Ps 72:6 ↩
8. 2 Samuel 23:5 2 Sam 7:12-16; Ps 89:29; Is 55:3 ↩
9. 2 Samuel 23:6 Matt 13:41 ↩
10. 2 Samuel 23:7 Lit filled ↩
11. 2 Samuel 23:7 Matt 3:10; 13:30; Heb 6:8 ↩
12. 2 Samuel 23:7 Lit sitting ↩

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