2 Samuel 7:22 “How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there i…”

2 Samuel 7:22

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Therefore you are great, LORD 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.

American Standard Version

Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that wee haue heard with our eares.

Darby Translation

Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore Thou hast been great, Jehovah God, for there is none like Thee, and there is no God save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Bible in Basic English

Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

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Cross references

“Wherefore”

Psalm 86:10 1 Chronicles 16:25 Deuteronomy 3:24 Psalm 96:4 Psalm 48:1 Psalm 135:5

Psalm 86:10 · BSB

For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.

1 Chronicles 16:25 · BSB

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

Deuteronomy 3:24 · BSB

“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

Psalm 96:4 · BSB

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 48:1 · BSB

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Psalm 135:5 · BSB

For I know that the LORD is great; our Lord is above all gods.

“none”

Exodus 15:11 Psalm 86:8 Micah 7:18 Isaiah 45:5 1 Samuel 2:2 Psalm 89:6

Exodus 15:11 · BSB

Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

Psalm 86:8 · BSB

O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Isaiah 45:5 · BSB

I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,

1 Samuel 2:2 · BSB

There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

Psalm 89:6 · BSB

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

Also

Psalm 44:1 Exodus 10:2

Psalm 44:1 · BSB

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

Exodus 10:2 · BSB

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.

23And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

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