1 Chronicles 17:26 BSB

1 Chronicles 17:26

And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And now, O Jehovah, thou art God, and hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:

KJV

And now, Lord, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

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Commentary

1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעַתָּ֣ה	ve.'a.Tah	and now	H6258 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
אַתָּה־	'a.tah-	you	H859 →
ה֖וּא	hu'	he	H1931 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	[are] <the> God	H430 →
וַתְּדַבֵּר֙	va.te.da.Ber	and you have spoken	H1696 →
עַֽל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
עַבְדְּךָ֔	'av.de.Kha	servant your	H5650 →
הַטּוֹבָ֖ה	ha.to.Vah	the good thing	H2896 →
הַזֹּֽאת׃	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
leads to
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 1:2
  in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- 1 Samuel 15:29
  Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- 2 Timothy 2:13
  if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- Romans 3:4
  Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
Through
Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 1:9
  He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- 1 John 2:25
  And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
- Hebrews 6:17–18
  So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

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Six covenants in succession, cumulative rather than replacing. Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, New. Each narrowing the line of promise while widening the scope of fulfillment.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Chronicles