2Sa 7:23 | NETfull | STEP | Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

2 Samuel 7:23

23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ^{▼▼ Heb “a nation, one.”} on the earth? Their God ^{▼▼ Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.} went ^{▼▼ The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.} to claim ^{▼▼ Heb “redeem.”} a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, ^{▼▼ Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”} before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ^{▼▼ Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).}