2-Samuel - 7:24

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24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Samuel 7:24.

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For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.
And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
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.
But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
For you have secured your people Israel for yourself, as an everlasting people. And you, O Lord God, have become their God.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For thou hast (m) confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
(m) He shows that God's free election is the only reason why the Israelites were chosen to be his people.

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever,.... So long as they were obedient to him, and observed his laws and statutes, and abode by his worship and ordinances, otherwise he would write a "loammi" on them, as he has, see Hosea 1:9,
and thou, Lord, art become their God; their covenant God, they having avouched him to be their God, and he having avouched them to be his people, Deuteronomy 26:17.

Confirmed - Partly, by thy promises, and that sure covenant which thou hast made with them: and partly, by thy glorious works wrought on their behalf, as it appears this day. Their God - In a peculiar manner, and by special relation and covenant: for otherwise he is the God and father of all things.

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