1. 2 Samuel 7:18 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

To what is David referring when he asks the LORD why he has brought him thus far?

2 Samuel 7:18 (ESV)

18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

David marvelled at the position to which God has brought him, that he (David) is king over Israel.1 He and his family did not have any dynastic expectations but now he had found himself to be in a privileged position.2 His question is similar to that which was asked by Saul when he heard that he would become king (see 1 Samuel 9:21).