1 Chronicles 17:22
◄  1 Chronicles 17:22  ►
New International Version (©2011)
You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You chose Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For Your people Israel You made Your own people forever, and You, O LORD, became their God.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, LORD, have become their God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

NET Bible (©2006)
You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You made the people of Israel to be your people forever. And you, LORD, became their God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

American King James Version
For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

World English Bible
For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-27 David's purposes; God's gracious promises. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 7. See what is there said upon it. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word's sake, is here said to be, "for thy servant's sake," ver. 19. Jesus Christ is both the Word of God, Re 19:13, and the Servant of God, Isa 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 22. - Didst thou make. This appears in Samuel, "Thou didst confirm."

1 Chronicles 17:22 Parallel Commentaries
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David's Prayer
…21And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before your people whom you have redeemed out of Egypt? 22For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; and you, LORD, became their God. 23Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as you have said. …

Exodus 19:5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
Exodus 19:6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."
1 Kings 10:9 Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness."
1 Chronicles 17:21 And who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?
1 Chronicles 17:23 "And now, LORD, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised,