2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Berean Standard Bible

Follow its threads on the canvas →

Study note

Setting — David addresses the nation after describing a righteous ruler’s reign and before contrasting the faithful with the worthless. He speaks from the perspective of a king reflecting on God’s commitment to his dynasty.

The words — כֵּן (khen) = thus/right, indicating the house’s standing before God, and בְּרִית (berit) = covenant, denoting the binding agreement. The text states the house is right with God because He has established an ordered and secured covenant with David.

The thread — The everlasting covenant appears in Isaiah 55:3 as a promise to those who listen, and in 2 Samuel 7:14 as a father-son relationship with disciplinary provisions. It points forward to Isaiah 9:6, which announces a born son whose government will rest upon his shoulders.

Why it lands — The verse claims God’s covenant guarantees the fulfillment of salvation and desire, requiring the reader to ground hope in divine faithfulness rather than human merit or political circumstance.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.

The Hebrew words

King James Version

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

Cross-references

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Jeremiah 32:40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
Psalms 89:28 I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Hebrews 6:19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
1 Chronicles 17:11 And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
Isaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
Isaiah 27:6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
Isaiah 61:8 For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.