1 Chronicles 17:21 · 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?”
— 1 Chronicles 17:21
O LORD, {there is} none like thee, neither {is there any} God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
1 Chronicles 17 — Context
O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all {these} great things. {great...: Heb. greatnesses}
20O LORD, {there is} none like thee, neither {is there any} God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21And 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?
22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
23Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
Cross References
Ezekiel 20:9-10
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they {were}, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:32-34
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and {ask} from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been {any such thing} as this great thing {is}, or hath been heard like it?
Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things {which} we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Psalms 44:2-3
{How} thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; {how} thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
Isaiah 48:9
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Psalms 77:15
Thou hast with {thine} arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Deuteronomy 33:26-29
{There is} none like unto the God of Jeshurun, {who} rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.