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1 Chronicles 17:21

in 1 Chronicles 17

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemedst out of Egypt?

KJV

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

This verse in 1 Chronicles 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Kingdom - In God's kingdom in a large and general sense. And this, as well as the former phrase, singularly belongs to the Messiah, who was not only to be the king of Israel, but also of all nations.

This site's exposition

there is none like You

on 1 Chronicles 17:20-22

Praise widens from David's house to God Himself: “O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You”. The lines match 2 Sam 7:22-24 closely. The question “who is like Your people Israel” then binds the covenant just given to the redemption from Egypt.

This site's exposition

who is like Your people

David sets Israel beside God Himself: the LORD stands alone in verse 20, and Israel stands alone among the nations. God went out to redeem them from Egypt. John Wesley reads the kingdom language of this prayer as reaching past Israel to the Messiah, king of all nations.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

12 He shall build me a house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee: 14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.

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The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּמִי֙and who?

    umiH4310 →423 times

  • כְּעַמְּךָ֣[is] like people your

    keamekhaH5971 →1873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • גּ֥וֹיa nation

    goyH1471 →561 times

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • בָּאָ֑רֶץon the earth

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הָלַ֨ךְhe went

    halakhH1980 →1546 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • לִפְדּ֧וֹתto redeem

    lifdotH6299 →

  • ל֣וֹfor himself

    lo

  • עָ֗םa people

    ʾamH5971 →1873 times

  • לָשׂ֤וּםto make

    lasumH7760 →584 times

  • לְךָ֙for yourself

    lekha

  • שֵׁ֚םa name

    shemH8034 →864 times

  • גְּדֻלּ֣וֹתgreat things

    gedulotH1420 →12 times

  • וְנֹרָא֔וֹתand awesome [deeds]

    venoraotH3372 →315 times

  • לְגָרֵ֗שׁby driving out

    legareshH1644 →

  • מִפְּנֵ֧יfrom before

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • עַמְּךָ֛people your

    ʾamekhaH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • פָּדִ֥יתָyou had redeemed

    paditaH6299 →

  • מִמִּצְרַ֖יִםfrom Egypt

    mimitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • גּוֹיִֽם׃nations

    goyimH1471 →561 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 63:12

    who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 15:16

      and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have…

    • Psalms 78:13

      He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

    • Joshua 3:16

      the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…

    • Exodus 14:21–22

      Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…

    • Psalms 114:5–7

      Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 15:15

    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 16:12

      Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.

    • 1 John 4:9–11

      This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

    • Ephesians 4:32

      Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.