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Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
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God's Sovereign Initiative
Commentators note that God's statement, 'I took you,' is emphatic in the original Hebrew. This stresses that David's incredible journey from a humble shepherd to the prince of Israel was not a result of his own ambition or strength, but a direct and sovereign act of God. His authority came entirely from God's initiative.
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1 Chronicles
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19th Century
Anglican
I took you from the sheep pen ... — Compare to Psalms 78:70-72. The pronoun is emphatic: “It was I who took you from the pasture.”
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).
Presbyterian
This chapter is the same as 2 Samuel 7. See what is said about it there. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word'…
