1 Chronicles 17:22
For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
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In The King James Version
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 offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
1 Samuel 12:22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.
Jeremiah 31:31“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
Romans 9:4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Romans 11:1I ask 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 →