2 Chronicles 20:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

'Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Didst not thou, O our God,{H430} drive out{H3423} the inhabitants{H3427} of this land{H776} before{H6440} thy people{H5971} Israel,{H3478} and give{H5414} it to the seed{H2233} of Abraham{H85} thy friend{H157} for ever?{H5769}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Art not thou our God{H430}, who didst drive out{H3423}{(H8689)} the inhabitants{H3427}{(H8802)} of this land{H776} before{H6440} thy people{H5971} Israel{H3478}, and gavest{H5414}{(H8799)} it to the seed{H2233} of Abraham{H85} thy friend{H157}{(H8802)} for ever{H5769}?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Hast not thou or God expelled the inhabiters of this londe before thy people of Israel? and hast geue it vnto the sede of Abraham thy louer for euer?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Diddest not thou our God cast out ye inhabitants of this lande before thy people Israel, and gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy friende for euer?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Art not thou our God, whiche diddest cast out the inhabiters of this lande before thy people Israel, & gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Our God, you drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession to the descendants of your friend Abraham.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend,
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God.
  • Ps 44:2 : 2 O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have recounted to us the deeds You performed in their days, in the times of old.
  • John 11:11 : 11 After he said this, he told them, 'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up.'
  • John 15:15 : 15 I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.
  • 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.
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 'I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.'
  • Exod 19:5-7 : 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. 7 So Moses came and summoned the elders of the people. He set before them all the words that the LORD had commanded him.
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • Exod 33:2 : 2 I will send an angel ahead of you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Josh 24:3 : 3 But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.
  • Josh 24:13 : 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.
  • 1 Chr 17:21-24 : 21 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as his own people, to make a name for yourself through great and awesome deeds, driving out nations before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? 22 You have made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God. 23 "And now, LORD, let the word you have spoken concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, 24 so that your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God.' And may the house of your servant David be established before you.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
  • Neh 9:8 : 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and You made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. And You have kept Your promise because You are righteous.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as his own people, to make a name for yourself through great and awesome deeds, driving out nations before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:51-53
    3 verses
    76%

    51 for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.

    52 May Your eyes be open to Your servant’s plea and to the plea of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.

    53 For You set them apart from all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O LORD God.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

  • Neh 9:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

    8 You found his heart faithful before You, and You made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. And You have kept Your promise because You are righteous.

  • 2 Sam 7:23-25
    3 verses
    74%

    23 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem as his people, to make a name for himself and to perform great and awesome deeds for your land, driving out nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?

    24 And you established your people Israel as your own people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.

    25 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and his house, and do as you have spoken.

  • Isa 41:8
    74%

    8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend,

  • 2 Chr 20:6
    74%

    6 He said: 'LORD, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, and no one can withstand you.'

  • Exod 32:13
    73%

    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself: 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and they shall inherit it forever.'

  • Gen 17:8
    73%

    8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • 2 Chr 20:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 'But now, here are the men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whose land you would not let Israel invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.'

    11 'See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance.'

  • Deut 4:38
    73%

    38 He drove out nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you into their land and to give it to you as an inheritance, as it is today.

  • Acts 7:45
    72%

    45 Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David.

  • Deut 9:5
    72%

    5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are entering to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and to fulfill the promise the LORD swore to your ancestors—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
    71%

    18 LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep these intentions and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and direct their hearts toward you.

  • Ps 135:12
    71%

    12 He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.

  • Mic 7:20
    71%

    20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as You promised to our fathers in days of old.

  • 1 Chr 22:18
    71%

    18 He said, 'Isn’t the Lord your God with you? And hasn’t He given you rest on every side? For He has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me, and the land is subdued before the Lord and His people.'

  • Ps 44:2
    71%

    2 O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have recounted to us the deeds You performed in their days, in the times of old.

  • Deut 1:8
    70%

    8 See, I have set the land before you. Go and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.

  • Josh 24:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 For the LORD our God is the one who brought us and our ancestors up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He performed great signs before our eyes, protected us along the entire way we traveled, and among all the peoples through whom we journeyed.

    18 The LORD drove out all the peoples before us, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, for He is our God.

  • Judg 11:23
    70%

    23 Now the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites before His people Israel. Would you now take possession of it?

  • Jer 32:22
    70%

    22 You gave them this land You swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Isa 63:16
    70%

    16 But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

  • 1 Chr 17:26
    70%

    26 And now, LORD, you are God, and you have made this good promise concerning your servant.

  • Josh 24:13
    70%

    13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.

  • Deut 4:7
    70%

    7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

  • Gen 13:15
    69%

    15 For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    69%

    40 so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land You gave to our ancestors.

  • Ps 105:11
    69%

    11 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.'

  • Judg 6:9
    69%

    9 I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

  • Gen 15:7
    69%

    7 And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

  • Gen 12:7
    69%

    7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

  • 2 Sam 7:28
    69%

    28 And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

  • Jer 7:7
    69%

    7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors forever and ever.

  • Deut 26:15
    69%

    15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as you swore to our ancestors.

  • 2 Sam 7:9
    69%

    9 I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

  • Ps 78:55
    69%

    55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance with a measuring line; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

  • Deut 1:20
    69%

    20 Then I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.'

  • Deut 6:23
    69%

    23 But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.