2 Samuel 7:23

Hebrew Bible

22 Therefore you are great, O Sovereign Lord, for there is none like you. There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true. 23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 24 You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.

LXX 2 Samuel 7:23

Septuagint

22 that he may magnify thee, O my Lord; for there is no one like thee, and there is no God but thou among all of whom we have heard with our ears. 23 And what other nation in the earth is as thy people Israel? whereas God was his guide, to redeem for himself a people to make thee a name, to do mightily and nobly, so that thou shouldest cast out nations and their tabernacles from the presence of thy people, whom thou didst redeem for thyself out of Egypt? 24 And thou hast prepared for thyself thy people Israel to be a people for ever, and thou, Lord, art become their God.

 Notes and References

"... The Masoretic text of 2 Samuel 7:23 offers an indefinite reading םיהלא whereas the Septuagint clarifies by the article ὁ before θεός that it is the God of Israel, the only one, who leads his people from Egypt. Perhaps already the source text offered םיהלאה instead of םיהלא. Also the Targum clarifies: “And who is like your people Israel, one chosen people in the earth, whom those sent from before the Lord sent to save for him a people… ” ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (p. 72) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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