1 Chronicles 17:24

May your name be established forever and be great, so the people will say, 'Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel,' while the house of me, David, your servant is established before you.

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In The King James Version

Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

In Context

23So now, Yahweh, may the promise that you made concerning your servant and his family be established forever. Do as you have spoken.

25For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. That is why I, your servant, have found courage to pray to you.

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Cross References

Psalms 21:13Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength; 1 we will sing and praise your power.

Psalms 90:17May the favor of the Lord our God be ours; 1 prosper the work of our hands; 1 indeed, prosper the work of our hands.

Jeremiah 38:17So Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, says this: If you indeed go out to the officials of the king of Babylon then you will live, and this city will not be burned. You and your family will live.

Matthew 6:13Do not bring us into temptation, 2 but deliver us from the evil one.' + 6:13 The best ancient copies omit For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen .

John 17:1After Jesus said these things, he lifted up his eyes to the heavens and said, “Father, the hour has come, glorify your Son so that the Son will glorify you—

Hebrews 8:10This is the covenant 2 that I will make with the house of Israel 1 after those days 2 —says the Lord. 1 I will put my laws into their minds, 1 and I will also write them on their hearts. 1 I will be their God, 1 and they will be my people. 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 →

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