2 Samuel 7:12 (YLT)

Passage

`When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;

Nearby Context

2 Samuel 7:10 and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning,

2 Samuel 7:11 even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house.

2 Samuel 7:12 `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;

2 Samuel 7:13 He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.

2 Samuel 7:14 I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "days", "full", "thou", "hast", "lain", "fathers", "raised", and "seed". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "days" and "full", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "even from the day that I appointed..." into verse 13's "He doth build a house for My...", so "days" and "full" 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 "days" and "full" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.