1 Chronicles 17:22 “For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O…”

1 Chronicles 17:22

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.

Darby Translation

And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.

Young's Literal Translation

Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.

Bible in Basic English

For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

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Cross references

“thy people”

1 Peter 2:9 Genesis 17:7 Deuteronomy 7:6–8 1 Samuel 12:22 Jeremiah 31:31–34 Zechariah 13:9

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Genesis 17:7 · BSB

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Deuteronomy 7:6–8 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 12:22 · BSB

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

Jeremiah 31:31–34 · BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Zechariah 13:9 · BSB

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our G…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21And 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.

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

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