2 Samuel 7:24
Good News Translation
You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

New Revised Standard Version
And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O LORD, became their God.

Contemporary English Version
You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.

New American Bible
You have established for yourself your people Israel as your people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.

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Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Deuteronomy 26:18 And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:

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2 Samuel 7:23 And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the face of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods.

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Deuteronomy 27:9 And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God:

1 Chronicles 17:22 And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.

Psalm 48:14 For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Jeremiah 31:1,33 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. . . .

Jeremiah 32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Hosea 1:10 And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.

Romans 9:25,26 As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy. . . .

1 Peter 2:10 Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

Context
David's Prayer of Thanksgiving
23And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the face of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods. 24For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.25And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,…
Cross References
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians:

Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,

2 Samuel 7:23
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