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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Samuel 7:24

For thou hast confirmed to thy selfe thy people Israel to be a people vnto thee for euer: and thou, Lord art become their God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   God Continued...;   Humility;   Prayer;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Church;   Family;   Importunity;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Prayer, Private;  

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;   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;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You established your people Israel to be your own people forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
Hebrew Names Version
You did establish to yourself your people Yisra'el to be a people to you forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
King James Version
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord , art become their God.
Lexham English Bible
You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.
English Standard Version
And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord , became their God.
New Century Version
You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and, Lord , you are their God.
New English Translation
You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord , became their God.
Amplified Bible
"You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your people forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
New American Standard Bible
"For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, LORD, have become their God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou hast ordeyned to thy selfe thy people Israel to be thy people for euer: and thou Lord art become their God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.
Contemporary English Version
You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.
Complete Jewish Bible
You set up your people for yourself as your people forever; and you, Adonai , became their God.
Darby Translation
And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
Easy-to-Read Version
You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and Lord , you became their God.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou hast established for thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee for ever; and thou, O LORD, hast become their God.
Good News Translation
You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord , have become their God.
Literal Translation
Yea, You have established Your people Israel to Yourself, to You for a people forever. And You, O Jehovah have become their God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thy people of Israel hast thou prepared the to be a people vnto thyne owne selfe for euer, and thou O LORDE art become their God.
American Standard Version
And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
Bible in Basic English
But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thou hast ordeyned thy people Israel to be thy people for euer, and thou Lorde art become their God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Thou didst establish to Thyself Thy people Israel to be a people unto Thee for ever; and Thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou has prepared for thyself thy people Israel to be a people for ever, and thou, Lord, art become their God.
English Revised Version
And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Berean Standard Bible
For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou confermidist to thee thi puple Israel in to a puple euerlastynge, and thou, Lord, art maad in to God to hem.
Young's Literal Translation
Yea, Thou dost establish to Thee Thy people Israel, to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, Jehovah, hast been to them for God.
Update Bible Version
And you established to yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people to thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
World English Bible
You did establish to yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
New King James Version
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God.
New Living Translation
You made Israel your very own people forever, and you, O Lord , became their God.
New Life Bible
For You have made for Yourself Your people Israel to be Your people forever. O Lord, You have become their God.
New Revised Standard
And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O Lord , became their God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and hast established for thyself thy people Israel - for thyself as a people, unto times age-abiding, - thou thyself, also, O Yahweh, becoming their God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.
Revised Standard Version
And thou didst establish for thyself thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

Contextual Overview

18 Then went king Dauid in, and sate before the Lord, and hee said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God: but thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while to come, and is this the maner of man, O Lord God? 20 And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant. 21 For thy words sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy seruant 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 haue heard with our eares. 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, euen like Israel, whom God went to redeeme for a people to himselfe, & to make him a name, and to doe for you great things, and terrible, for thy lande, before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations, and their gods? 24 For thou hast confirmed to thy selfe thy people Israel to be a people vnto thee for euer: and thou, Lord art become their God. 25 And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy seruant, and concerning his house, establish it for euer, and doe as thou hast said. 26 And let thy name bee magnified for euer, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruant Dauid bee established before thee. 27 For thou, O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reuealed to thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therfore hath thy seruant found in his heart to pray this prayer vnto thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

confirmed: Genesis 17:7, Deuteronomy 26:18

art become: 2 Samuel 7:23, Exodus 15:2, Deuteronomy 27:9, 1 Chronicles 17:22, Psalms 48:14, Isaiah 12:2, Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 32:38, Hosea 1:10, Zechariah 13:9, John 1:12, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, 1 Peter 2:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:7 - will take

Cross-References

Genesis 7:3
Of fowles also of the aire, by seuens, the male & the female; to keepe seed aliue vpon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:4
For yet seuen dayes, and I will cause it to raine vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and forty nights: and euery liuing substance that I haue made, will I destroy, fro off the face of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever,.... So long as they were obedient to him, and observed his laws and statutes, and abode by his worship and ordinances, otherwise he would write a "loammi" on them, as he has, see Hosea 1:9;

and thou, Lord, art become their God; their covenant God, they having avouched him to be their God, and he having avouched them to be his people, Deuteronomy 26:17.


 
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