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.

21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

23 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?

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21 For Your word’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all these great things, to make Your servant know them. 22 Therefore (A)You are great, [a]O Lord God. For (B)there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our (C)ears. 23 And who is like Your people, like Israel, (D)the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—before (E)Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods?

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:22 Tg., Syr. O Lord God

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 before your people,[b] whom (E)you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

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Footnotes

  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 awesome things for your land, before your people