King James Version
2 Samuel 7:24 in the King James Version says “For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their...” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.”
2 Samuel 7:24 · KJV
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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?
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 now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
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“For thou hast confirmed”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“to be a people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“to be a people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“unto thee for”
H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“ever”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
“and thou LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“art become”
H1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“their God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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