2 Samuel 7:23

David celebrated Israel as the unique nation God redeemed for Himself, making His name known through great and awesome deeds. Israel's identity rests on God's saving grace.

Cross-references · 28

• Deut 10:21He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
• Deut 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
• Deut 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
• Neh 1:10“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
• Ps 147:20He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
• Ps 111:9He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
• Deut 15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
• Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Deut 4:32–38For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
• Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
• Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Exod 9:16but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
• Ps 65:5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Ps 145:6Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
• Exod 12:12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Exod 3:7–8Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• Isa 63:7–14I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Rom 3:1–2Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
• Josh 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
• 1 Chr 17:21What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• Num 14:13–14Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
• Ps 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
• Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

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