2 Samuel 7:24

Covenant and promises

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.

²³ 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.

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,

²⁶ so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

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.

Compare

BSB: For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
KJV: For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
WEB: You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
ASV: And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
DARBY: And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
BLB: For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel—Your very own people even to forever. And You, O YHWH, have become their God.

ÅB: Og du dannet deg ditt folk Israel, så det skulle være ditt folk til evig tid, og du, Herre, er blitt deres Gud.
OTB: For du har grunnfestet ditt folk Israel som ditt eget folk for alltid, og du, Herre, har blitt deres Gud.
B1930: Og du dannet dig ditt folk Israel, så det skulde være ditt folk til evig tid, og du, Herre, er blitt deres Gud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 26:18
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
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1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Psalms 48:14
For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
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Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
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John 1:12
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
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Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
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