Bible Strands
2 Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — David delivers his final oracle as king of Israel, framing his utterance at the end of his life as divinely mediated rather than self-originated.
The words — The Hebrew ר֥וּחַ (Ruach) and יְהוָ֖ה (Yahweh) identify the speaker as the Spirit of Yahweh, while דִּבֶּר (diber) and לְשׁוֹנִֽי (leshoni) literally render "he has spoken" and "my tongue."
The thread — The mechanism of Spirit-mediated speech appears in 2 Peter 1:21, while the motif of David speaking by the Spirit surfaces in Matthew 22:43 and Mark 12:36.
Why it lands — The text asserts that prophetic speech originates from divine agency acting through a human mouth, requiring the reader to recognize the speaker as a conduit rather than the source of the message.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
Cross-references
- 2 Peter 1:21 For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 22:43 Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
- Mark 12:36 Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
- Acts 2:25 David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,