2 Samuel 7:8 (BSB)

Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

From 2 Samuel 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:4-17: We have here a full revelation of God's favour to David and the kind intentions of that favour, the notices and assurances of which God sent him by Nathan the prophet, whom he entrusted to deliver this long message to him. The design of it is to take him off from his purpose of building the temple and it was therefore sent, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 7:8: Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David,.... For it was taken well at his hands, in part, that it was in his heart, and he had a desire to build an house for God, though he was wrong in determining upon it without seeking the Lord; and lest he should be discouraged by the prohibition of him from building, the following things...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on 2 Samuel 7:8-16: 2Sa 7:8-16 After thus declining his proposal, the Lord made known His gracious purpose to David: “Thus saith Jehovah of hosts” (not only Jehovah, as in 2Sa 7:5, but Jehovah Sebaoth, because He manifests himself in the following revelation as the God of the universe): “I have taken thee from the pasturage (grass-plat), behind the flock, to be prince over my people Israel; and was...