2 Samuel 7:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמִ֤י כְעַמְּךָ֙ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל גּ֥וֹי אֶחָ֖ד בָּאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָלְכֽוּ־אֱ֠לֹהִים לִפְדּֽוֹת־ל֨וֹ לְעָ֜ם וְלָשׂ֧וּם ל֣וֹ שֵׁ֗ם וְלַעֲשׂ֨וֹת לָכֶ֜ם הַגְּדוּלָּ֤ה וְנֹֽרָאוֹת֙ לְאַרְצֶ֔ךָ מִפְּנֵ֣י עַמְּךָ֗ אֲשֶׁ֨ר פָּדִ֤יתָ לְּךָ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם גּוֹיִ֖ם וֵאלֹהָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And who like ʿamməḵā like yiśrāʾēl, gôy ʾeḥāḏ in the ʾāreṣ, whom hāləḵû-ʾĕlōhîm to lipədôṯ-lô ləʿām and to lāśûm lô šēm and to do for you the gəḏûllāh and wənōrāʾôṯ for ləʾarṣeḵā from before ʿamməḵā whom pāḏîṯā for yourself from miṣrayim, gôyim and their gods?

Grammar Details

• *ʿamməḵā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - 'your people'
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - 'Israel'
• *gôy*: noun, masculine singular - 'nation'
• *ʾeḥāḏ*: numeral, masculine singular - 'one'
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - 'the earth/land'
• *hāləḵû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd common plural - 'they went'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'God/gods'
• *lipədôṯ*: preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct - 'to redeem'
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'for himself'
• *ləʿām*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - 'for a people'
• *lāśûm*: preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct - 'to make/set'
• *šēm*: noun, masculine singular - 'name'
• *gəḏûllāh*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - 'the greatness'
• *wənōrāʾôṯ*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural - 'and awesome acts'
• *ləʾarṣeḵā*: preposition + noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - 'for your land'
• *pāḏîṯā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - 'you redeemed'
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
• *gôyim*: noun, masculine plural - 'nations'

Word Meanings

• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground/territory
• *hāləḵû-ʾĕlōhîm*: God went/divine beings went
• *lipədôṯ*: to redeem/to ransom/to deliver
• *lāśûm*: to make/to set/to establish
• *wənōrāʾôṯ*: and awesome acts/and terrible things/and fearful deeds

Referenced Verses

• Deut 9:26 : 26 I prayed to him: O, Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your valued property that you have powerfully redeemed, whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.
• Deut 10:21 : 21 He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.
• Deut 15:15 : 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.
• Deut 33:29 : 29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.
• Neh 1:10 : 10 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.
• Ps 111:9 : 9 He delivered his people; he ordained that his covenant be observed forever. His name is holy and awesome.
• Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!
• Ps 40:5 : 5 O LORD, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
• Rom 3:1-2 : 1 Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
• Ps 65:5 : 5 You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance, O God, our savior. All the ends of the earth trust in you, as well as those living across the wide seas.
• Ps 66:3 : 3 Say to God:“How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear before you.
• Ps 106:22 : 22 amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea.
• Isa 63:7-9 : 7 A Prayer for Divine Intervention I will tell of the faithful acts of the LORD, of the LORD’s praiseworthy deeds. I will tell about all the LORD did for us, the many good things he did for the family of Israel, because of his compassion and great faithfulness. 8 He said,“Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal.” He became their deliverer. 9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 10 But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them. 11 His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them, 12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation, 13 who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running through the wilderness they did not stumble. 14 Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the LORD granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.
• Ps 145:6 : 6 They will proclaim the power of your awesome acts! I will declare your great deeds!
• Josh 7:9 : 9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”
• 1 Chr 17:21 : 21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.
• Exod 3:7-8 : 7 The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
• Exod 9:16 : 16 But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
• Exod 12:12 : 12 I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
• Num 14:13-14 : 13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them– 14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Deut 4:7-8 : 7 In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the LORD our God whenever we call on him? 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
• Deut 4:32-38 : 32 The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it. 33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it? 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? 35 You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him. 36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. 37 Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power 38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.