Verse of the Day

　　

2 Samuel 7:22

"How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you."

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee.

English Standard Version

Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

The Message

"This is what makes you so great, Master God! There is none like you, no God but you, nothing to compare with what we've heard with our own ears.

New King James Version

Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You.

New Living Translation

"How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you -- there is no other God. We have never even heard of another god like you!"

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:18-29

(Read 2 Samuel 7:18-29)

　　David's prayer is full of the breathings of devout affection toward God. He had low thoughts of his own merits. All we have, must be looked upon as Divine gifts. He speaks very highly and honourably of the Lord's favours to him. Considering what the character and condition of man is, we may be amazed that God should deal with him as he does. The promise of Christ includes all; if the Lord God be ours, what more can we ask, or think of? Ephesians 3:20. He knows us better than we know ourselves; therefore let us be satisfied with what he has done for us. What can we say more for ourselves in our prayers, than God has said for us in his promises? David ascribes all to the free grace of God. Both the great things He had done for him, and the great things He had made known to him. All was for his word's sake, that is, for the sake of Christ the eternal Word. Many, when they go to pray, have their hearts to seek, but David's heart was found, that is, it was fixed; gathered in from its wanderings, entirely engaged to the duty, and employed in it. That prayer which is from the tongue only, will not please God; it must be found in the heart; that must be lifted up and poured out before God. He builds his faith, and hopes to speed, upon the sureness of God's promise. David prays for the performance of the promise. With God, saying and doing are not two things, as they often are with men; God will do as he hath said. The promises of God are not made to us by name, as to David, but they belong to all who believe in Jesus Christ, and plead them in his name.

　　

2 Samuel 7:22 In-Context

20 "What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Sovereign Lord.

　　21 For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant.

　　22 "How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

　　23 And who is like your people Israel-the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 17:21; Hebrew "wonders for your land and before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt, from the nations and their gods" .

　　24 You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.