2 Samuel 7:23

21 For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.

22 How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

24 For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

25 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
KJV
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
WEB
What one nation on the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
ASV
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and terrible things for thy land, before thy people, whom thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
DARBY
And who is like thy people, like Israel, the one nation in the earth that God went to redeem to be a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do for them great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thyself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
BLB
And who [is] like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make for Himself a name, and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations and their gods?
ÅB
Og hvor er det på jorden et eneste folk som ditt folk - som Israel - et folk som Gud kom og fridde ut, så det skulle være hans eget folk, for å gjøre seg et navn og for å gjøre dette store for dere og forferdelige gjerninger for ditt land, for ditt folks skyld som du fridde ut fra Egypt, fra hedningefolk og deres guder?
OTB
Og hvem er som ditt folk, Israel, den ene nasjonen på jorden som Gud gikk for å forløse for seg selv som et folk, og for å gjøre et navn for seg selv, og for å gjøre store ting for deg—fryktinngytende ting for ditt land, på grunn av ditt folk som du har forløst for deg selv fra Egypt, fra andre nasjoner og deres guder?
B1930
Og hvor er det på jorden et eneste folk som ditt folk - som Israel - et folk som Gud kom og fridde ut, så det skulde være hans eget folk, for å gjøre sig et navn og for å gjøre dette store for eder og forferdelige gjerninger for ditt land, for ditt folks skyld som du fridde ut fra Egypten, fra hedningefolk og deres guder?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 9:26

    And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:21

    He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

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  • Psalms 147:20

    He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

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  • Nehemiah 1:10

    They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

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  • Deuteronomy 15:15

    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

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  • Deuteronomy 33:29

    Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

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  • Psalms 111:9

    He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

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  • Ezekiel 20:9

    But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

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