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What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
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A Uniquely Chosen People
Commentators explain that David's prayer emphasizes Israel's special status. The phrase "what one nation" can be translated as "a single, isolated race on the earth." This highlights that Israel's identity was not based on its own merits but on God's specific, singular act of choosing and redeeming them for Himself.
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1 Chronicles
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19th Century
Anglican
And what one nation in the earth. —Rather, And who is like Your people Israel, a single (isolated) race on the earth?…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).
Presbyterian
This chapter is the same as 2 Samuel 7. See what is said about it there. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word'…
