2 Samuel 7:9

Plain English Version

I was always close to you whenever you did all kinds of important things. I helped you to hunt away the cheeky people that came here from other places. And now I will make you really important. Everybody in every place will hear about you and remember your name, and they will say you are great.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will give you a big family, and they will become a great nation, and I will do good things for you and your family, and I will make your mob strong. Then everyone will know about you and your family, and everyone will respect you. And you and your family will do good things for other people.

Luke 1:52

He chucks out the big bosses and takes their power away. But he gets people that are not important, and he makes them bosses.

1 Samuel 31:6

That’s how Saul died, and his sons, and the man that carried his shield, and his soldiers. They all died on that day.

1 Samuel 5:10

So the Philistia mob took the special box to another place, this time to the town called Ekron. After they arrived at Ekron with the special box, lots of people from that place shouted out as they saw it, “Oh no. They have brought that special box here now. We will all die.”