1 Chronicles 17:20

O Yahweh, there is none like unto thee, yea there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

In Context

19O Yahweh, for the sake of thy servant, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this great thing,—making known all the great things.

21Who then is like thy people Israel, a nation alone in the earth,—whom God went to redeem, to be his own people, to make for thyself a name for great and fearful things, to drive out, nations, from before thy people, whom thou didst redeem out of Egypt;

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Cross References

Exodus 18:11Now, I know, that, greater, is Yahweh than all the gods,—Even in the thing wherein they were arrogant over them.

Deuteronomy 4:35Thou, wast allowed to see that thou mightest know, that Yahweh, he is God, there is none other than he alone.

Deuteronomy 33:26There is none like GOD, O Jeshurun,—Riding upon the heavens to thy help,—And for his own majesty, on the skies;

Psalms 44:1O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us,—The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:

Psalms 86:8There is none like unto thee, among the gods, O My Lord, And nothing like thy works.

Psalms 89:8O Yahweh, God of hosts! Who, like thee, is mighty, O Yah! With thy faithfulness round about thee:

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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