Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become 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.
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.
World English Bible
For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became 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 other one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, God, which you have redeemed from slavery to become your own people, making a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You did awesome miraculous deeds, driving out nations that stood in their way. 22 You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God. 23 "And now, LORD, let what you have spoken concerning your servant and his household be done forever and let it be done just as you've promised.
Cross References
Exodus 19:5-6
And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,
Genesis 17:7
I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."
Deuteronomy 26:18-19
The LORD affirmed this day that you are his prized possession. Therefore, observe his commands,
1 Samuel 12:22
Indeed, the LORD won't abandon His people for the sake of His great name, for the LORD desires to make you a people for himself.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"
Romans 9:4-6
who are Israelis. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises.
Romans 9:25-26
As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.
Romans 11:1-12
So I ask, "God has not rejected his people, has he?" Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.