1 Chronicles 16:17
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles 16:17 in other translations
| BSB | He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: |
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| WEB | He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, |
| ASV | And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, |
| YLT | And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel--a covenant age-during. |
| DARBY | And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, Unto Israel for an everlasting covenant, |
| BBE | And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement; |
| Webster | And which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, |
What does 1 Chronicles 16:17 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Chronicles 16:7-36
Let God be glorified in our praises. Let others be edified and taught, that strangers to him may be led to adore him. Let us ourselves triumph and trust in God. Those that give glory to God's name are allowed to glory in it. Let the everlasting covenant be the great matter of our joy his people of old, be remembered by us with thankfulness to him. Show forth from day to day his salvation, his promised salvation by…
1 Chronicles 16:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Chronicles 16:17
- Genesis 35:11-12
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- Genesis 17:7-8
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- 2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
- Psalms 78:10
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
- Jeremiah 11:2
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
- Joshua 24:11-13
And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
- Exodus 3:17
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Hebrews 13:20
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Context
- 1 Chronicles 16:16
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
- 1 Chronicles 16:17
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
- 1 Chronicles 16:18
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
1 Chronicles 16:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El cual confirmó á Jacob por estatuto, y á Israel por pacto sempiterno, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et qu’il a établie pour Jacob comme statut, pour Israël comme alliance perpétuelle, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er stellte ihn Jakob zur Satzung, Israel zum ewigen Bunde, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et constituit illud Jacob in præceptum, et Israël in pactum sempiternum, |