Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa 2 Samuel 7:12

For You have preceded him with the blessings of the good man Before I asked You, You preceded me with Your blessing through Nathan the prophet (in II Sam. 7:12f.): “then I will raise up your seed...and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”

THEN WILL I GIVE YOUR RAINS IN THEIR SEASON. He mentioned the matter of rains first [of all the blessings] because if they come in their proper season, the air is pure and good and the springs and rivers are good [clear], and thus it [the rain] is a [prime] cause of physical health, and all produce will increase and be blessed by it, just as He said, and the Land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.¹In Verse 4 before us. Thus because of this [pure state of the environment] people do not become sick, and none shall miscarry, nor be barren,²Exodus 23:26. even among their cattle,³See Deuteronomy 7:14. and they will live out [the full extent of] their days.⁴See II Samuel 7:12. For when the material frame [of human beings] is large and healthy, they can continue [in health] as in the days of Adam.⁵Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years (Genesis 5:5). See Ramban ibid., on Verse 4, (Vol. I pp. 98-99). Thus this [blessing — the rains in their seasons] is the greatest of all blessings [and therefore it is given first place].
Now He said that the heavens will respond to the earth⁶See Hosea 2:23. with rains in their seasons, and the earth shall respond⁷See ibid., Verse 24. with its “produce”, which includes vegetation and all moving creatures — cattle, beasts, creeping things and fowl, as well as fish — for the term ha’aretz [“the earth” or “the land,” in and ‘the land’ shall yield her produce] includes the whole of the lower sphere [i.e., everything under the sphere of the moon], just as [in the verses]: In the beginning G-d created the heaven and ‘ha’aretz’ (the earth);⁸Genesis 1:1. See Ramban ibid., Verse 3 (Vol. I, p. 25) where he discusses this topic fully, and mentions also the verses cited in the following text. And the heaven and ‘ha’aretz’ (the earth) were finished;⁹Ibid., 2:1. and similarly, Praise the Eternal from ‘ha’aretz’ (the earth), ye sea-monsters and all deeps,¹⁰Psalms 148:7. and so also in most verses in Scripture [where this word occurs]. Thus all things created in the lower spheres are “the produce of the earth.”

AND I WILL MAKE YOU FRUITFUL. This means that they will all have children, fruit of the womb, and there will be no barren man or woman among them.²⁶See Deuteronomy 7:14. And then He stated again, and I will multiply you, meaning that they will have many children, and will not be bereaved of them, because they will live out their days,⁴See II Samuel 7:12. and therefore they will be a large people.

Who spoke with His mouth. That He would grant him a son who would build the Beis [Hamikdosh].¹³“With His mouth,” refers to the “voice” of prophecy which was given through Noson, the prophet, and repeated directly to Dovid. See II Shmuel 7:12-17.

revive me according to Your word Just as You promised me good, through Nathan the prophet.

Remember a word through which You gave me hope, through Nathan the prophet to your servant.