2 Samuel 7:9
Good News Translation
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have defeated all your enemies as you advanced. I will make you as famous as the greatest leaders in the world.

New Revised Standard Version
and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Wherever you went, I helped you and destroyed your enemies right in front of your eyes. I have made you one of the most famous people in the world.

New American Bible
I was with you wherever you went, and I cut down all your enemies before you. And I will make your name like that of the greatest on earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.

And I was

2 Samuel 5:10 And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.

2 Samuel 8:6,14 And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served David under tribute, and the Lord preserved David in all his enterprises, whithersoever he went. . . .

2 Samuel 22:30,34-38 For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall. . . .

1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.

1 Chronicles 17:8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have slain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that of one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.

cut off

2 Samuel 22:1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

Psalm 18:37-42 I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed. . . .

Psalm 89:23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.

out of thy sight [heb] from thy face.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

1 Chronicles 17:8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have slain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that of one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.

Psalm 113:7,8 Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill: . . .

Luke 1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble.

like unto

Psalm 87:3-6 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. . . .

Context
God's Covenant with David
8And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel: 9And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.10And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more: neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did before,…
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:10
Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.

2 Samuel 8:13
David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:

2 Samuel 23:1
Now these are David's last words. David the son of Isai said: The man to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob, the excellent psalmist of Israel said:

Psalm 18:37
I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.

Psalm 89:23
And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.

2 Samuel 7:8
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