2 Samuel 23:5

Although my house be not so with God (the sentence is a question, like 2 Samuel 7:18, expressing David's surprise over the goodness of God which was shown to his family), yet He hath made with me an ever lasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, 2 Samuel 7:12 ff. the declaration of God ordering and arranging all things beyond the possibility of overthrow; for this is all my salvation and all my desire, the salvation promised by God being a constant source of pleasure to David, although he make it not to grow, literally, "Should He not make it sprout?" Messiah would surely be a righteous Branch, who would reign and prosper, Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15. The contrast between this excellent condition and the judgment upon the ungodly is now brought out.