22For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.


In Context

19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

20 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.'

1 Chronicles 17:22 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:22You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, O Lord , have become their God.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:22And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:22And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:22For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:22Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:22For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; and you, LORD, became their God.