1 Chronicles 16:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:”
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“He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,”
King James Version · Public Domain“And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel--a covenant age-during.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Chronicles 16:17 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- Exodus 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Joshua 24:11After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
- 2 Samuel 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
- Psalms 78:10They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
- Jeremiah 11:2“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
- Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
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