2 Samuel 7:21 (WEB)

Passage

For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

Nearby Context

2 Samuel 7:19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

2 Samuel 7:20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

2 Samuel 7:21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

2 Samuel 7:22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 Samuel 7:23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "word", "sake", "heart", "worked", "greatness", "make", and "servant". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "word" and "sake", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "What more can David say to you..." into verse 22's "Therefore you are great Yahweh God For...", so "word" and "sake" belong inside that flow. In 2 Samuel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "word" and "sake" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.