Therefore you are great, O Lord GOD. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
We have here the solemn address David made to God, in answer to the gracious message God had sent him. We are not told what he said to Nathan; no doubt he received him very kindly and respectfully as God's messenger. But his answer to God he took himself, and did not send by Nathan.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 7:18-29
Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God,.... In his name, nature, persons, and perfections, purposes, promises, and works: for there is none like thee; for his essence and attributes, for his greatness and goodness, for what he is in himself, for what he is to his people, and has done for them: neither is there any God beside thee; there is but one God, the...
2Sa 7:21-22 “For Thy word’s sake, and according to Thy heart (and therefore not because I am worthy of such grace),has Thou done all this greatness, to make it known to Thy servant.” The word, for the sake of which God had done such great things for David, must be some former promise on the part of God.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 7:21-22