1. 2 Samuel 7:9 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean that the Lord will make David’s name great?

2 Samuel 7:9 (ESV)

9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

Making David’s name great connects him with Abraham (Genesis 12:2).1 Specifically, it means that David will become famous, a man whom many people know about, with his deeds and actions widely celebrated and proclaimed.