1 Chronicles 17:21
For what nation on earth is like your people Israel, whom you, God, rescued from Egypt as a people for yourself, to make a name for yourself by great and awesome deeds? You drove out nations from before your people, whom you rescued from Egypt.
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20Yahweh, there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, just as we have always heard.
22You made Israel your own people forever, and you, Yahweh, became their God.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Deuteronomy 4:32Ask now about the days that are past, which were before your time, since the day that God created man on the earth, ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been anything so great as this, or has anything like it ever been heard?
Deuteronomy 15:15You must remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you today to do this.
Joshua 10:42Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Joshua 24:11You went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho fought against you, along with the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. I gave you victory over them and put them under your control.
Psalms 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, 1 but you planted our people; 1 you afflicted the peoples, 1 but you spread our people out in the land. 1
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 →