1 Chronicles 17:22

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You have made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫וַ֠תִּתֵּן אֶת־עַמְּךָ֨ יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל ׀ לְךָ֛ לְעָ֖ם עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם וְאַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה הָיִ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ ‬

Transliteration

And wattittēn ʾeṯ-ʿamməḵā Yiśrāʾēl to-you for-ʿām until-ʿôlām, and wəʾattāh YHWH hāyîṯā to-them for-lēʾlōhîm.

Grammar Details

• *wattittēn*: consecutive imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you gave
• *ʿamməḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your people
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʿām*: noun, masculine singular - people
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - forever
• *wəʾattāh*: conjunctive waw + personal pronoun, 2nd masculine singular - and you
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
• *hāyîṯā*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have been
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition + noun, masculine plural - for a God

Word Meanings

• *wattittēn*: and you gave/placed/set
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity
• *hāyîṯā*: you have been/became/existed as
• *lēʾlōhîm*: for a God/as deity/as divine one

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thy people{H5971} Israel{H3478} didst thou make{H5414} thine own people{H5971} for{H5704} ever;{H5769} and thou, Jehovah,{H3068} becamest their God.{H430}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thy people{H5971} Israel{H3478} didst thou make{H5414}{(H8799)} thine own people{H5971} for{H5704} ever{H5769}; and thou, LORD{H3068}, becamest their God{H430}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and ye people of Israel hast thou made yi people for euer, and thou LORDE art become their God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thy people of Israel diddest thou make thyne owne people for euer, and thou becamest their God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine. 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
• Deut 7:6-8 : 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And the LORD has declared today that you are His treasured people as He promised, and that you are to keep all His commandments. 19 He will set you high above all the nations He has made, bringing you praise, fame, and honor. And you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For the LORD will not abandon His people for the sake of His great name, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.
• Jer 31:31-34 : 31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. 33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will anyone teach their neighbor or their brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’
• Rom 9:4-6 : 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, came Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. 6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
• Rom 9:25-26 : 25 As he says in Hosea: 'I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’' 26 And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Rom 11:1-9 : 1 So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel? 3 "Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and have torn down Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life." 4 But what was God’s answer to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The chosen obtained it, but the rest were hardened. 8 As it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day." 9 And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them." 10 "Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever." 11 Again I ask, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will come from their full inclusion!
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.