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21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22 (A)Therefore you are great, O Lord God. (B)For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 (C)And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name (D)and doing for them[a] great and awesome things by driving out[b] before your people, whom (E)you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you
  2. 2 Samuel 7:23 Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land

21 For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant.

22 “How great(A) you are,(B) Sovereign Lord! There is no one like(C) you, and there is no God(D) but you, as we have heard with our own ears.(E) 23 And who is like your people Israel(F)—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name(G) for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders(H) by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed(I) from Egypt?[a]

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 17:21; Hebrew wonders for your land and before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt, from the nations and their gods.