2 Samuel 23:5

For is not my house thus with God?

for an eternal covenant hath he made for me,

ordered in all and secured:

for all my salvation and all good pleasure

shall he not cause it to spring forth?

This seems to be the most probable rendering of an obscure passage. The meaning then will be: Is not my house in such a relation to God, because He has made an eternal covenant with me, that I may look for the righteous ruler to arise out of it, bringing with him all these attendant blessings?

"The eternal covenant" is the promise in ch. 2 Samuel 7:12 ff., to which David refers as the ground of his confidence in the fulfilment of this prophecy in and through his house. The epithets "ordered in all and secured" compare the covenant to a carefully drawn and properly attested legal document.

Finally he expresses his confidence that God will in due time cause the salvation promised to him and his house, and all His own good pleasure, to grow and prosper, using a metaphor suggested by that in 2 Samuel 23:4. Cp. Psalms 132:17; Jeremiah 33:15; and for God's "good pleasure," cp. Isaiah 53:10.