1 Chronicles 16:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:”
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BSBPD
“He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath not suffered any to oppress them, And reproveth on their account kings:”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 1 Chronicles 16:21 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 12:17The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
- Genesis 20:3One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- Genesis 31:24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 31:29I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Exodus 7:15Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- Exodus 9:13Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Zephaniah 2:10This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
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