1 Chronicles 17:21

¹⁹ O LORD, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

²⁰ O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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?

²² For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

²³ Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.

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 wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 3:7–8
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
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Psalms 44:2–3
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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Psalms 65:5
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
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Psalms 107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
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Isaiah 63:12
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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