1 Chronicles 17:21

¹⁹ O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness.

²⁰ O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

²² For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

²³ And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
KJV: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
WEB: What one nation on 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 redeemed out of Egypt?
ASV: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out of Egypt?
DARBY: And who is like thy people Israel, the one nation in the earth that God went to redeem to be a people to himself, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, which thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
BLB: And who [is] like Your people Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself [as] a people, to make for Yourself a great name and to be feared, to drive out nations from before Your people whom You redeemed from Egypt.

ÅB: Og hvor er det på jorden et eneste folk som ditt folk Israel, et folk som Gud kom og fridde ut, så det skulle være hans eget folk, for å gjøre deg et navn ved store og forferdelige gjerninger, ved å drive ut hedningefolk for ditt folks skyld, som du fridde ut fra Egypt?
OTB: Og hvilket folk på jorden er som ditt folk Israel,
som Gud gikk for å forløse for seg selv som et folk,
for å gjøre et navn for deg selv ved store og fryktinngytende gjerninger,
ved å drive ut nasjoner foran ditt folk, som du forløste fra Egypt?
B1930: Og hvor er det på jorden et eneste folk som ditt folk Israel, et folk som Gud kom og fridde ut, så det skulde være hans eget folk, for å gjøre dig et navn ved store og forferdelige gjerninger, ved å drive ut hedningefolk for ditt folks skyld, som du fridde ut fra Egypten?

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 20:9–10
But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 3:7–8
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
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Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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Psalms 44:2–3
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
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Psalms 65:5
With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
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Psalms 107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
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Isaiah 63:12
who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
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