Parallel Verses
Amplified
You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.
New American Standard Bible
For
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.
Holman Bible
You established Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.
International Standard Version
You have prepared your people Israel to be your very own people for ever, and you, LORD, have become their God!
A Conservative Version
And thou established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee forever, and thou, LORD, became 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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt prepare to thyself thy people Israel to thee for a people, even to forever. And thou Jehovah wert to them for God.
King James 2000
For you have confirmed to yourself your people Israel to be a people unto you forever: and you, LORD, have become their God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.
Modern King James verseion
For You have confirmed to Yourself Your people Israel to be a people to You forever. And You, Jehovah, have become their God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thou hast ordained thy people Israel to be thy people forever. And thou, LORD, art their God.
NET Bible
You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.
New Heart English Bible
You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
The 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.
Webster
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 established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
Youngs 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 7:24
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David Responds To Yahweh's Covenant
23 What one nation on earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do great and awesome things for Yourself and for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods? 24 You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God. 25 Now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word [of the covenant] that You have spoken in regard to Your servant and his house (royal dynasty); and do just as You have spoken,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:18
Today the Lord has declared that you are His people, His treasured possession, just as He promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments;
Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Psalm 48:14
For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide even until death.
Exodus 6:7
Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who redeemed you and brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus 15:2
“The Lord is my strength and my song,
And He has become my salvation;
This is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Deuteronomy 27:9
Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the Lord your God.
2 Samuel 7:23
What one nation on earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do great and awesome things for Yourself and for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?
1 Chronicles 17:22
You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
Isaiah 12:2
“Behold, God, my salvation!
I will trust and not be afraid,
For the Lord God is my strength and song;
Yes, He has become my salvation.”
Jeremiah 31:1
“At that time,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Jeremiah 32:38
They will be My people, and I will be their God;
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the
Shall be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”
Zechariah 13:9
“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will listen and answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
John 1:12
But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—
Romans 9:25-26
Just as He says in [the writings of the prophet] Hosea:
And [I will call] her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.