2 Samuel 7:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

God went, to wit, into Egypt; an expression of God after the manner of men. To make him a name; to advance the glory of his power and goodness, and other perfections. Compare Exodus 9:16.

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?