2 Samuel 7:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

like Israel. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "like Thy People Israel".

redeem. Hebrew. padah. See notes on Exodus 13:13 and 2 Samuel 6:6.

2 Samuel 7:23

23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?