Parallel Verses
World English Bible
For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Holman Bible
You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.
International Standard Version
You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.
A Conservative Version
For thy people Israel thou made thine own people forever. And thou, LORD, became their God.
American Standard Version
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
Amplified
You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
Bible in Basic English
For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
Darby Translation
And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt give thy people Israel to thee for a people even to forever; and thou, O Jehovah, wert to them for God.
King James 2000
For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God.
Modern King James verseion
And You have chosen Your people Israel for Yourself, for a people forever. And You, Jehovah, became their God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thou LORD art become their God.
NET Bible
You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.
New Heart English Bible
For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
The Emphasized Bible
and didst appoint thy people Israel for thyself as a people, unto times age-abiding, - thou thyself, also, O Yahweh, becoming their God?
Webster
For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Youngs Literal Translation
Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.
Interlinear
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 17:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
David's Prayer
21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? 22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
Cross References
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18-19
and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
Romans 9:4-6
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Romans 9:25-26
As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
Romans 11:1-12
I 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.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: