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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Samuel 7:22

Therefore, you are great, Adonai , God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you — everything we have heard confirms that.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   God Continued...;   Humility;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Church;   Family;   Importunity;   None like God;   One God;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Greatness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - God;   Prayer, Private;   Unity of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Midwives;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   David;   Jerusalem;   Nathan;   Nations;   Prayer;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - David ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Temple;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Nathan (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Prayer;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is why you are great, Lord God. There is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore you are great, LORD God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore you are great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears.
English Standard Version
Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
New Century Version
This is why you are great, Lord God ! There is no one like you. There is no God except you. We have heard all this ourselves!
New English Translation
Therefore you are great, O Lord God, for there is none like you! There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true!
Amplified Bible
"Therefore You are great, O Lord GOD; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
New American Standard Bible
"For this reason You are great, Lord GOD; for there is no one like You, and there is no God except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore thou art great, O Lorde God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that wee haue heard with our eares.
Legacy Standard Bible
For this reason You are great, O Lord Yahweh; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Contemporary English Version
Lord All-Powerful, you are greater than all others. No one is like you, and you alone are God. Everything we have heard about you is true.
Darby Translation
Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord God , this is why you are so great! There is no one like you. There is no god except you! We know that because of what we ourselves have heard about what you did.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Good News Translation
How great you are, Sovereign Lord ! There is none like you; we have always known that you alone are God.
Literal Translation
For this reason, O Jehovah God, You are great; for there is none like You; and there is no God except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore art thou greatly magnified O LORDE God: for there is none like the, & there is no God but thou, acordinge vnto all that we haue herde with or eares.
American Standard Version
Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Bible in Basic English
Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore thou art great, O Lorde God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to al that we haue heard with our eares.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore 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.
King James Version (1611)
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 haue heard with our eares.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that he may magnify thee, O my Lord; for there is no one like thee, and there is no God, but thou among all of whom we have heard with our ears.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Herfor, Lord God, thou art magnyfied, for noon is lijk thee, ne there is no God outakun thee, in alle thingis whiche we herden with oure eeris.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore Thou hast been great, Jehovah God, for there is none like Thee, and there is no God save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Update Bible Version
Therefore you are great, O Yahweh God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
World English Bible
Therefore you are great, Yahweh God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
New King James Version
Therefore You are great, O Lord God. [fn] For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
New Living Translation
"How great you are, O Sovereign Lord ! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!
New Life Bible
For this reason You are great, O Lord God. There is none like You. And there is no God but You, by all that we have heard with our ears.
New Revised Standard
Therefore you are great, O Lord God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For this cause, hast thou magnified thyself, O Yahweh Elohim, - for there is none like unto, thee, yea there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things that we have heard with our ears.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
THE MESSAGE
"This is what makes you so great, Master God ! There is none like you, no God but you, nothing to compare with what we've heard with our own ears. And who is like your people, like Israel, a nation unique in the earth, whom God set out to redeem for himself (and became most famous for it), performing great and fearsome acts, throwing out nations and their gods left and right as you saved your people from Egypt? You established for yourself a people—your very own Israel!—your people permanently. And you, God , became their God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For this reason You are great, O Lord GOD; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Contextual Overview

18 Then David went in, sat before Adonai and said, "Who am I, Adonai Elohim ; and what is my family, that has caused you to bring me this far? 19 Yet in your view, Adonai Elohim , even this was too small a thing; so you have even said that your servant's dynasty will continue on into the distant future. This is [indeed] a teaching for a man, Adonai Elohim — 20 what more can David say to you? For you know your servant intimately, Adonai Elohim . 21 It is for the sake of your word and in accordance with your own heart that you have done all this greatness and revealed it to your servant. 22 Therefore, you are great, Adonai , God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you — everything we have heard confirms that. 23 Who can be compared with your people, with Isra'el? What other nation on earth did God set out to redeem and make into a people for himself? You made yourself a reputation by doing for your land things that even for you are great and terrifying, for the sake of your people whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt and from other nations and from their gods. 24 You set up your people for yourself as your people forever; and you, Adonai , became their God. 25 So now, Adonai , God, establish forever the word you have spoken to your servant and his house; do what you have promised. 26 May your name be magnified forever, so that it will be said, ‘ Adonai -Tzva'ot is God over Isra'el, and the dynasty of your servant David will be set up in your presence.' 27 You, Adonai -Tzva'ot, God of Isra'el, have disclosed to your servant, ‘I will build you a house.' This is why your servant has the courage to pray this prayer to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: Deuteronomy 3:24, 1 Chronicles 16:25, 2 Chronicles 2:5, Psalms 48:1, Psalms 86:10, Psalms 96:4, Psalms 135:5, Psalms 145:3, Ezekiel 36:22, Ezekiel 36:32

none: Exodus 15:11, Deuteronomy 4:35, Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:2, Psalms 86:8, Psalms 89:6, Psalms 89:8, Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 45:22, Jeremiah 10:6, Jeremiah 10:7, Micah 7:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:10 - there is none 1 Kings 8:23 - no God 2 Chronicles 6:14 - no God Daniel 2:45 - the great

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
Then Adonai , God, formed a person from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.
Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God,.... In his name, nature, persons, and perfections, purposes, promises, and works:

for [there is] none like thee; for his essence and attributes, for his greatness and goodness, for what he is in himself, for what he is to his people, and has done for them:

neither [is there any] God beside thee; there is but one God, the living and true God, the former and maker of all things; all others are but fictitious and factitious gods, see 1 Samuel 2:2;

according to all that we have heard with our ears; concerning what he did in the land of Egypt upon the Egyptians, and in the wilderness, in favour of the Israelites, and in the land of Canaan, by driving out the inhabitants before the people of Israel, and in the times of the judges, in raising them up to deliver his people.


 
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