1 Chronicles 17:22

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

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

In Context

21And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?

23And now, Lord, let your words about your servant and about his family be made certain for ever, and do as you have said.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 12:22For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

Jeremiah 31:31See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:

Romans 9:4Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

Romans 11:1So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 17:17-27

David's Grateful Acknowledgment. ( b. c. 1042.) 16 And David the king came and sat before the Lord , and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God. 18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. 19 O Lord ,… Read the whole commentary →

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