1 Chronicles 17:22

Covenant and promises

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.

²¹ 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?

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.

²⁴ Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

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.

Compare

BSB: For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
KJV: For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
WEB: For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
ASV: For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
DARBY: And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
BLB: For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people even to forever, and You, O YHWH, have become to them God.

ÅB: Og du satte ditt folk Israel til å være ditt folk til evig tid, og du, Herre, er blitt deres Gud.
OTB: For du har gjort ditt folk Israel til ditt eget folk for alltid,
og du, Herre, har blitt deres Gud.
B1930: Og du satte ditt folk Israel til å være ditt folk til evig tid, og du, Herre, er blitt deres Gud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 19:5–6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
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1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
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1 Samuel 12:22
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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Romans 9:4–6
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
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Romans 11:1–12
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Deuteronomy 7:6–8
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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