1 Chronicles 17:22
You made Israel your own people forever, and you, Yahweh, 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.
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Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.
1 Samuel 12:22For the sake of his great name, Yahweh will not reject his people, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
Jeremiah 31:31Look, the days are coming 2 —this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 when I will establish a new covenant 2 with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 1
Romans 9:4They are Israelites. They have adoption, the glory, the covenants, the gift of the law, the worship of God, and the promises.
Romans 11:1I say then, did God reject his people? May it never be. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant 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 →