Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 And what one nation as thy people Israel, in the earth, whom God went to redeem to him a people to set up to thee a name of greatnesses and terrible things, to thrust out nations from before thy people, whom thou didst redeem from Egypt? 22 And thou wilt give thy people Israel to thee for a people even to forever; and thou, O Jehovah, wert to them for God. 23 And now, O Jehovah, the word which thou spakest concerning thy servant and concerning his house, shall be faithful even to forever, and do as thou spakest
Cross References
Exodus 19:5-6
And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth.
Genesis 17:7
And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18-19
And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands,
1 Samuel 12:22
For Jehovah will not cast off his people on account of his great name, for Jehovah willed to make you to him for a people.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I cut out the house of Israel and the house of Judah a new covenant
Zechariah 13:9
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Romans 9:4-6
Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;
Romans 9:25-26
As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved.
Romans 11:1-12
I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Peter 2:9
And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light: