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Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel 7:22 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  • 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.
  • BSB How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
  • NASB For this reason You are great, Lord God; for there is no one like You, and there is no God except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  • NLT “How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!

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Quick answer

David praised God as great and incomparable, the only true God. Encountering grace moves him to worship God's uniqueness.

Overview

David's response to covenant promise is doxology: there is no one like the LORD and no God besides Him. This confession of God's greatness and exclusivity echoes Israel's foundational faith (Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4). Genuine experience of God's grace always magnifies the glory and uniqueness of the God who gives it.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 26

  • Ps 86:10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
  • Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  • Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
  • Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
  • 1 Chr 16:25For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
  • Isa 45:5I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me;
  • Deut 3:24“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
  • 1 Sam 2:2There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
  • Ps 89:8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
  • Ps 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
  • Deut 4:35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
  • Jer 10:6–7There is no one like you, Yahweh. you are great, and your name is great in might.
  • Ps 96:4For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
  • Ps 48:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
  • Isa 40:18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
  • Ps 145:3Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
  • Ps 135:5For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
  • Ps 44:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
  • Ezek 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
  • Isa 45:18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
  • 2 Chr 2:5“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
  • Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
  • Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
  • Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • Exod 10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
  • Ezek 36:32Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

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Christ at the center

God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.

How 2 Samuel 7:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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