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.’
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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.’
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Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
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Yea, let it be established, and let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Thy servant shall be established before Thee.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 17:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
- Psalms 21:13 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.
- Psalms 72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
- Psalms 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
- Jeremiah 31:1 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Matthew 6:9 Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
- Matthew 6:13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
- John 12:28 Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
- John 17:1 Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
- Philippians 2:11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Hebrews 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- 1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, he showeth himself in deed to be…
That is, he showeth himself in deed to be their God, by delivering them from dangers, and preserving them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Or, The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,…
Or, The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is a God to Israel, i.e. he is really to his people that which he hath styled himself, their God, having taken such care of them, and showed such mercy and truth to them, as did fully answer that title.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A God - He is really to his people…
A God - He is really to his people that which he hath styled himself, their God, having taken such care of them, and shewed such mercy and truth to them, as fully answered that title.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ch 17:24. A God to Israel — He is…
1Ch 17:24. A God to Israel — He is really to his people that which he hath styled himself, their God, having taken such care of them, and showed such mercy and truth to them, as fully answered that title.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Some prefer, “And let Thy name be established and…
Some prefer, “And let Thy name be established and magnified forever:” i. e., “Let not only Thy promise stand firm, but let Thy Name also stand firm (continue to be held in honor) and be magnified,” etc.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. Let it even be established, that thy name…
24. Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified] Render with R.V. mg. Yea, let it be established, and let thy name be magnified.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Let it even be established.—“Yea, let it be…
(24) Let it even be established.—“Yea, let it be assured.” This repetition is wanting in Samuel.
The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel . . .—“Jehovah Sabaoth, God of Israel, is God to Israel.” “God of Israel” is not read here in Samuel, but in the next verse.
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And let the house of David . . . be established.—“Let be” is wanting in the Hebrew, and the sentence might be taken as part of what men are to say hereafter in praise of God: “The house of David thy servant is established before thee.” Samuel, however, inserts the verb “let it become,” or “shall become.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Hebrew text reads here naturally enough, And let…
The Hebrew text reads here naturally enough, And let be established and magnified for ever thy Name. The "established" in the last clause of the verse is not the same word with that used here.
God"s relation to his people. I The relation which God bears to his people.
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1. He has chosen them out of the world, which lieth in wickedness.
2. He has given himself to them in a peculiar way.
3. He avows that relation to them before the whole universe.
II Inquire what, under that relation, we may expect at his hands.
1. The care of his providence.
2. The communication of his grace.
3. The manifestations of his love.
4. The possession of his glory.
III What, under that relation, he is entitled to expect from us.
1. That we "be a people to him.
2. That we give ourselves to him, as he has given himself to us.
Conclude with two proposals:
1. That we, at this very hour, accept Jehovah as our God.
2. That we now consecrate ourselves to him as his people( Revelation C. Simeon, M.A.). R.T.
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