Parallel Verses
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?
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.
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 Who 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; 22 and didst appoint thy people Israel for thyself as a people, unto times age-abiding, - thou thyself, also, O Yahweh, becoming their God? 23 Now, therefore, O Yahweh, the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, be it steadfast unto times age-abiding, - and do as thou hast spoken:
Cross References
Exodus 19:5-6
Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth;
Genesis 17:7
And I will confirm my covenant betwixt me and thee and thy seed after thee to their generations for an age-abiding covenant, - to become to thee a God, and to thy seed after thee;
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God: of thee, hath Yahweh thy God, made choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground:
Deuteronomy 26:18-19
And, Yahweh, hath avowed to-day that thou shalt be, his people, as a treasure, as he spake unto thee, - and that thou shalt observe all his commandments;
1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, - When I will solemnize - With the house of Israel and With the house of Judah, A new covenant:
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold, - It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, is my God!
Romans 9:4-6
Who, indeed, are Israelites, whose are the sonship, and the glory, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the divine service, and the promises,
Romans 9:25-26
As also in Hosea he saith - I will call the not-my-people, My people, and the not-beloved, beloved,
Romans 11:1-12
I say, then - Hath God cast off his people? Far be it! For, I also, am an Israelite, - of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:
1 Peter 2:9
But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous light: -