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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.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
Amplified
You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your people forever, and You, O Lord, have become 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.
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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 And who is as Thy people, as Israel -- one nation in the earth, whom God hath gone to redeem to Him for a people, and to make for Him a name -- and to do for you the greatness -- even fearful things for Thy land, at the presence of Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed to Thee out of Egypt -- among the nations and their gods? 24 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. 25 'And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:18
'And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;
Genesis 17:7
'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;
Psalm 48:14
That this God is our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!
Exodus 6:7
and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I am Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;
Exodus 15:2
My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.
Deuteronomy 27:9
And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, 'Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;
2 Samuel 7:23
And who is as Thy people, as Israel -- one nation in the earth, whom God hath gone to redeem to Him for a people, and to make for Him a name -- and to do for you the greatness -- even fearful things for Thy land, at the presence of Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed to Thee out of Egypt -- among the nations and their gods?
1 Chronicles 17:22
Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.
Isaiah 12:2
Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.
Jeremiah 31:1
At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.
Jeremiah 31:33
For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
Jeremiah 32:38
and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;
Hosea 1:10
and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;
Zechariah 13:9
And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'
John 1:12
but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
Romans 9:25-26
as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,
1 Peter 2:10
who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.