2 Samuel 7:23

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2 Samuel 7:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.

22 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.

23 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

24 For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

25 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

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Deuteronomy 4:7

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

Deuteronomy 4:8

And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Deuteronomy 4:33

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 33:29

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

Psalms 147:20

He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

Romans 3:1

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Romans 3:2

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

Exodus 3:7

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 19:5

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Exodus 19:6

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Numbers 14:13

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Numbers 14:14

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Psalms 111:9

He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

Isaiah 63:8

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Isaiah 63:11

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Isaiah 63:12

who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

Isaiah 63:13

who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Isaiah 63:14

Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

Exodus 9:16

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

1 Chronicles 17:21

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

Deuteronomy 10:21

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

Psalms 40:5

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

Psalms 65:5

With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

Psalms 66:3

Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

Psalms 106:22

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

Psalms 145:6

They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 15:15

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

Nehemiah 1:10

They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

Exodus 12:12

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.