📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 17:20
What does 1 Chronicles 17:20 mean?
"Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears."
— 1 Chronicles 17:20 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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?
For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
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.
Explanation
This verse comes from the middle of King David's prayer of thanksgiving, spoken right after the prophet Nathan delivered a stunning promise from God: rather than allowing David to build a temple, God would build David a "house," meaning an enduring dynasty and covenant relationship. Overwhelmed by this grace, David goes in and sits before the Lord, pouring out gratitude and awe. Verse 20
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