Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 7:21

21 For thy words sake , and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them .

That thou mightest fulfil thy promises made to me, by Samuel and Nathan, and thereby demonstrate thy Faithfulness.

i. e. Of thine own meer liberality and good pleasure, without any desert of mine. So far was David, though now a very gracious man, from thinking his actions Meritorious.

i. e. That thy gracious and wonderful purposes of Mercy towards me, which lay hid in thine own heart, might be manifested unto me and others, by thy most kind words and actions. So it agrees with 1 Chron. 17. 19.

Marginal references: Heb. this greatness.