1 Chronicles 16:17
Good News Translation
The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

New Revised Standard Version
which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Contemporary English Version
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

New American Bible
And ratified as binding for Jacob, an everlasting covenant for Israel:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

for a law

Psalm 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

an everlasting

Genesis 17:7,8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Exodus 3:17 And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Joshua 24:11-13 And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands. . . .

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Jeremiah 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Hebrews 13:20 And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,

Context
David's Psalm of Thanksgiving
16The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac. 17And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:18Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritance.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 35:12
And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

1 Chronicles 16:16
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