2 Samuel 7:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”

2 Samuel 7:23

Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people and to make a name for himself, doing great and awesome things, driving out nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?

2 Samuel 7:25

And now, O Lord God, as for the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever; do as you have promised.

1 Chronicles 17:22

And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.

Psalm 48:14

that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide forever.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 12:2

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and will not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.”

Jeremiah 31:1

At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep all his commandments;

Deuteronomy 27:9

Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel! This very day you have become the people of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father who created you, who made you and established you?

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.