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Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Wycliffe Bible

1 Chronicles 17:22

And thou hast set thi puple Israel in to a puple to thee til in to with outen ende, and thou, Lord, art maad the God therof.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Humility;   Parents;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You made your people Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
Hebrew Names Version
For your people Yisra'el did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
King James Version
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Lord , becamest their God.
English Standard Version
And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord , became their God.
New Century Version
You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and, Lord , you are their God.
New English Translation
You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O Lord , became their God.
Amplified Bible
"You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, LORD, became their God.
New American Standard Bible
"For You have made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, LORD, became their God.
World English Bible
For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You gave Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.
Berean Standard Bible
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
Contemporary English Version
You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.
Complete Jewish Bible
For you made your people Isra'el your people forever; and you, Adonai , became their God.
Darby Translation
And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
Easy-to-Read Version
You took Israel to be your people forever, and you, Lord , became their God!
George Lamsa Translation
For thy people Israel thou didst make thine own people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.
Good News Translation
You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord , have become their God.
Lexham English Bible
And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God.
Literal Translation
Yea, You have chosen Your people Israel for Yourself, for a people forever, and You, O Jehovah, have been God to them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye people of Israel hast thou made yi people for euer, and thou LORDE art become their God.
American Standard Version
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
Bible in Basic English
For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy people of Israel diddest thou make thyne owne people for euer, and thou becamest their God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Thy people Israel didst Thou make Thine own people for ever; and Thou, LORD, becamest their God.
King James Version (1611)
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine owne people for euer, and thou, Lord, becamest their God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou hast appointed thy people Israel as a people to thyself for ever; and thou, Lord, didst become a God to them.
English Revised Version
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Update Bible Version
For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
New King James Version
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God.
New Living Translation
You chose Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, O Lord , became their God.
New Life Bible
You made Your people Israel to be Your people forever. And You, O Lord, became their God.
New Revised Standard
And you made your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, O Lord , became their God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and didst appoint thy people Israel for thyself as a people, unto times age-abiding, - thou thyself, also, O Yahweh, becoming 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.
Revised Standard Version
And thou didst make thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For Your people Israel You made Your own people forever, and You, O LORD, became their God.

Contextual Overview

16 And whanne kyng Dauid hadde come, and hadde sete bifore the Lord, he seide, Lord God, who am Y, and what is myn hows, that thou schuldist yyue siche thingis to me? 17 But also this is seyn litil in thi siyt, and therfor thou spakest on the hows of thi seruaunt, yhe, in to tyme to comynge; and hast maad me worthi to be biholdun ouer alle men. 18 My Lord God, what may Dauid adde more, sithen thou hast so glorified thi seruaunt, and hast knowe hym? 19 Lord, for thi seruaunt thou hast do bi thin herte al this grete doyng, and woldist that alle grete thingis be knowun. 20 Lord, noon is lijk thee, and noon other God is with oute thee, of alle whiche we herden with oure eeris. 21 For who is anothir as thi puple Israel, o folc in erthe, to whom God yede, to delyuere and make a puple to hym silf, and to caste out bi his greetnesse and dredis naciouns fro the face therof, which he delyuerede fro Egipt? 22 And thou hast set thi puple Israel in to a puple to thee til in to with outen ende, and thou, Lord, art maad the God therof. 23 Now therfor, Lord, the word which thou hast spoke to thi seruaunt, and on his hows, be confermed with outen ende, and do, as thou spake; 24 and thi name dwelle, and be magnefied `with outen ende; and be it seid, The Lord of oostis is God of Israel, and the hous of Dauid, his seruaunt, dwellynge bifor hym. 25 For thou, my Lord God, hast maad reuelacioun to the eere of thi seruaunt, that thou woldist bilde to hym an hous; and therfor thi seruaunt foond trist, that he preie bifor thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy people: Genesis 17:7, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Deuteronomy 26:18, Deuteronomy 26:19, 1 Samuel 12:22, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Zechariah 13:9, Romans 9:4-6, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2-12, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 7:24 - art become 1 Kings 10:9 - because the 2 Chronicles 9:8 - because thy God

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
And Abram felde doun lowe on his face.
Genesis 17:6
and Y schal make thee to wexe ful greetli, and Y schal sette thee in folkis, and kyngis schulen go out of thee;
Genesis 17:8
and Y schal yyue to thee and to thi seed after thee the lond of thi pilgrymage, al the lond of Chanaan, in to euerlastynge possessioun, and Y schal be the God of hem.
Genesis 17:9
God seide eft to Abraham, And therfor thou schalt kepe my couenaunt, and thi seed after thee, in her generaciouns.
Genesis 17:15
Also God seide to Abraham, Thou schalt not clepe Saray, thi wijf, Sarai, but Sara;
Genesis 18:33
The Lord yede forth, after that he ceesside to speke to Abraham, and Abraham turnede ayen in to his place.
Exodus 20:22
And the Lord seide ferthermore to Moises, Thou schalt seie these thingis to the sones of Israel, Ye seiyen that fro heuene Y spak to you;
Deuteronomy 5:4
Face to face he spak to vs in the hil, fro the myddis of the fier.
Judges 6:21
the aungel of the Lord helde forth the `ende of the yerde which he helde in the hond, and he touchide the fleischis, and the therf looues; and fier stiede fro the stoon, and wastide the fleischis, and therf looues. Forsothe the aungel of the Lord vanyschide fro hise iyen.
Judges 13:20
And whanne the flawme of the auter stiede in to heuene, the aungel of the Lord stiede togidere in the flawme. And whanne Manue and his wijf hadden seyn this, thei felden lowe to erthe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 17:1".


 
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