Understanding the Promise (Part 1 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Why did God rebuff David’s well-intentioned proposal to build Him a house? Passages like this can be difficult to correctly interpret. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg steps back from our focus in 2 Samuel to teach us how to properly study Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Why did God rebuff King David's well-intentioned proposal to build the Lord a house? |
| 0:32.9 | Old Testament passages like the one we find in Second Samuel can be difficult to interpret correctly. |
| 0:40.0 | So today on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg takes a half step back from our focus in Second Samuel |
| 0:45.8 | to teach us how to properly study and interpret the Bible. |
| 0:57.0 | We turned out. the Bible. We turn now to 2 Samuel into Chapter 7, and I invite you to follow along as I read from the |
| 1:04.9 | first verse. |
| 1:08.2 | Samuel 7 concerns, first of all, the Lord's promise or covenant with David. |
| 1:16.6 | Now, when the King lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding |
| 1:22.6 | enemies, the King said to Nathan the prophet, See, now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent. |
| 1:32.2 | And Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you. |
| 1:38.6 | By that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan. |
| 1:42.0 | Go and tell my servant, David, thus says the Lord, |
| 1:45.2 | would you build me a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up |
| 1:51.8 | the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I've been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. |
| 1:59.0 | In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, |
| 2:02.7 | did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people |
| 2:07.6 | Israel, saying, why have you not build me a house of cedar? Now, therefore, thus you shall say |
| 2:15.7 | to my servant, David, thus says the Lord of hosts, |
| 2:19.3 | I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, |
| 2:24.8 | Israel. And I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. |
| 2:31.9 | And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of |
| 2:36.3 | the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them so that they may dwell |
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