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2 Samuel 7:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, LORD, became their God. "
2 Samuel 7:24
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
22 Therefore you are great, LORD God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23 What one nation on the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
25 “Now, LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’
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2 Samuel 7:1
"When the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around,"
2 Samuel 7:2
"the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”"
2 Samuel 7:3
"Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”"
2 Samuel 7:4
"That same night, the LORD’s word came to Nathan, saying,"
2 Samuel 7:5
"“Go and tell my servant David, ‘The LORD says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?"
2 Samuel 7:6
"For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle."
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