2 Samuel 7:24

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God.

Literal

For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel—Your very own people even to forever. And You, O YHWH, have become their God.

Latin

Firmasti enim tibi populum tuum Israël in populum sempiternum: et tu, Domine Deus, factus es eis in Deum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

2 Samuel 7:24

David praised God for his goodness in redeeming and establishing the nation of Israel (2 Samuel 7:23–24), not only for blessing David and his royal family (2 Samuel 7:18–21). His prayer speaks for the whole people, not just for himself.

2 Samuel 7:18–29

David responded with prayer to God’s promise that his family would rule as kings for many generations. In his prayer, he repeatedly acknowledged that God alone is the true king and Sovereign Lord.

2 Samuel 7:1–29

David was not happy just making a tent for the ark (2 Samuel 6:17). He wanted to build a house for God.

Theme notes and profiles

David God’s Covenant with David

Events

Reign of David

Related verses

Deuteronomy 26:18
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Psalm 48:14
For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
John 1:12
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Zechariah 13:9
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
Romans 9:25–26
As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Jeremiah 32:38
They will be My people, and I will be their God.

Parallels

1 Chronicles 17:16–27

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

David History of Israel Jerusalem Promise Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

David: King of Israel: Devoutness of God: Love of, Exemplified Humility: David Private Prayer: David The Jews: The People of God

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