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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 16:17

The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Isaac;   Jacob;   Music;   Praise;   Psalms;   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Everlasting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covenant, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confirm;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and confirmed to Jacob as a decree,and to Israel as a permanent covenant:
Hebrew Names Version
Confirmed the same to Ya`akov for a statute, To Yisra'el for an everlasting covenant,
King James Version
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
English Standard Version
which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
New Century Version
He made it a law for the people of Jacob; he made it an agreement with Israel to last forever.
New English Translation
He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,
Amplified Bible
He confirmed it as a statute to Jacob, And to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
New American Standard Bible
He also confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
World English Bible
Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, & to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Berean Standard Bible
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Contemporary English Version
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Complete Jewish Bible
and established as a law for Ya‘akov, for Isra'el as an everlasting covenant:
Darby Translation
And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, Unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Easy-to-Read Version
He gave it as a law for Jacob, as an agreement with Israel that will last forever.
George Lamsa Translation
And he has confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Lexham English Bible
And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, an everlasting covenant to Israel,
Literal Translation
and He established it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as a covenant forever,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he comfirmed the same vnto Iacob for a perpetuall lawe, and to Israel for an euerlastinge couenaunt.
American Standard Version
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Bible in Basic English
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he appoynted the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He established it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
King James Version (1611)
And hath confirmed the same to Iacob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting Couenant,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He confirmed it to Jacob for an ordinance, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
English Revised Version
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he ordeynede that to Jacob in to a comaundement; and to Israel in to euerlastynge couenaunt.
Update Bible Version
And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Webster's Bible Translation
And which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant,
New King James Version
And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
New Living Translation
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:
New Life Bible
To Jacob He made it a Law to be kept, as an agreement forever to Israel.
New Revised Standard
which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And confirmed it, unto Jacob, for a statute, unto Israel, as a covenant age-abiding:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
Revised Standard Version
which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
Young's Literal Translation
And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Contextual Overview

7 It was then that David first gave Asaph and the other Levites the responsibility for singing praises to the Lord . 8 Give thanks to the Lord , proclaim his greatness; tell the nations what he has done. 9 Sing praise to the Lord ; tell the wonderful things he has done. 10 Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice! 11 Go to the Lord for help, and worship him continually. 12You descendants of Jacob, God's servant, descendants of Israel, whom God chose, remember the miracles that God performed and the judgments that he gave. < 14 The Lord is our God; his commands are for all the world. 15 Never forget God's covenant, which he made to last forever, 16 the covenant he made with Abraham, the promise he made to Isaac. 17 The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for a law: Psalms 78:10

an everlasting: Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Exodus 3:17, Joshua 24:11-13, 2 Samuel 23:5, Isaiah 55:3, Jeremiah 11:2, Hebrews 13:20

Reciprocal: Acts 3:25 - the covenant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.


 
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