23And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
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I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-29)We have here the solemn address David made to God, in answer to the gracious message God had sent him. We are not told what he said to Nathan; no doubt he received him very kindly and respectfully as God’s messenger. But his answer to God he took himself, and did not send by Nathan. When ministers deliver God’s message to us, it is not to them, but to God, that our hearts must reply; he understand…
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