2 Samuel 7:23

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And what one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do for you great things and awesome, for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

A name. So that all might praise God, for the favours which he had bestowed upon his people, (Haydock) and admire his power and glory. Gods, whom thou didst cast out of Chanaan. (Paralipomenon) (Calmet) From, is not expressed in the Vulgate or Hebrew, though Protestants also supply it. (Haydock) Some explain Elohim, "gods "of the chief men of the Hebrew nation. The power of the idols was overthrown; (Numbers xxxiii. 4,) and the Israelites were rescued both from oppression, and from the service of false gods, Ezechiel xvi. (Calmet) Adonai is often substituted for Jehova; as appears from 1 Paralipomenon xvii. 21, 22. (Kennicott)

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