1 Chronicles 17:21

And who [is] as Your people Israel, one nation in the earth whom God has gone to ransom to Himself for a people, to make a great and fearful name for Yourself, to cast out nations from the presence of Your people whom You have ransomed out of Egypt?

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In The King James Version

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

In Context

20O YHWH, there is none like You, and there is no god except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

22Indeed, You appoint Your people Israel to Yourself for a people for all time, and You, O YHWH, have been to them for God.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You have seen that which I have done to the Egyptians, and [how] I carry you on eagles’ wings and bring you to Myself.

Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the former days which have been before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even to the [other] end of the heavens, whether there has been as this great thing, or [if anything] has been heard like it.

Deuteronomy 15:15and you have remembered that you have been a servant in the land of Egypt, and your God YHWH ransoms you; therefore I am commanding you this thing today.

Joshua 10:42and Joshua has captured all these kings and their land [at] one time, for YHWH, God of Israel, is fighting for Israel.

Joshua 24:11And you pass over the Jordan, and come to Jericho, and the possessors of Jericho fight against you—the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—and I give them into your hand.

Psalms 44:2You, [with] Your hand, have dispossessed nations. And You plant them. You afflict peoples, and send them away.

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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