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1 Chronicles 17:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 17:26 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, Yahweh, you he, God, and you have spoken this good concerning your servant.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And now, O Jehovah, thou art God, and hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And now, O LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Therefore nowe Lord (for thou art God, and hast spoken this goodnesse vnto thy seruant)
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And now O Lord, thou art God: and thou hast promised to thy servant such great benefits.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And now, Jehovah, Thou `art' God Himself, and Thou speakest concerning Thy servant this goodness;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, YHWH, You [are] God Himself, and You speak this goodness concerning Your servant;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have made this good promise to your servant:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, Yahweh, you he, God, and you have spoken this good concerning your servant.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And now, Jehovah, thou art that God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness to thy servant:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    For you, Lord, are God! You are the one who has promised all these good things to your servant.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have said you will give this good thing to your servant:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And now, O LORD, Thou alone art God, and hast promised this good thing unto Thy servant;

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Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 3 pronouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb

Verb forms

  • וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ Piel · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 17:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before eternal times;
  • Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Exodus 34:6–7 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 17:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה אַתָּה ה֖וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ עַֽל עַבְדְּךָ֔ הַטּוֹבָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת

Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 17:26 Septuagint · lemma form

καί νῦν κύριος σύ εἰμί αὐτός ὁ θεός καί λαλέω ἐπί ὁ δοῦλος σύ ὁ ἀγαθός οὗτος

And now, Lord, you yourself are God, and you have spoken these good things concerning your servant.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 17:26 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

And canst not break promise.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(26) Lord, thou art God.—Jehovah, Thou art the (true) God. Samuel: “my Lord Jehovah.” The chronicler omits the clause which follows in Samuel: “and thy words become truth” (prove true).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

26. this goodness] R.V. this good thing.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The faithful Promiser.

David pleads before God the fact of his having promised; he reminds God of his own Word. But he does more than this. He testifies his perfect confidence that the promise will be fulfilled because of what God"s. "Thou, Lord, art God there is his rest. It is much to have received a gracious promise, but it is much more to have, and to trust, a "faithful Promiser." The promises help and comfort us; but we want to rise above even the promises, and find the "eternal life," and deep "heart-rest" of knowing God, and being able to say to him, "Now, Lord, thou art God.

I THE VALUE OF A PROMISE DEPENDS UPON THE PROMISEMAKER, This may be efficiently illustrated from our ordinary life-associations. Some men"s promises we never heed, never depend upon, because we know them, and know that they promise hastily or thoughtlessly; or they have formed the habit of getting out of seeming difficulties by a promise which puts off the evil day. (This tradesmen too often do.) Other men"s promises we implicitly trust, because we know them, and know that they count promises to be sacred, and only fail to keep them by some unexpected disabilities, or some physical impossibilities. It may be shown that the value of a promise does not depend on its subject or on its form; it would be no surer if confirmed with the most terrible oaths. It depends on the character first, and then on the ability, of him who makes it; and we inquire concerning him both can he perform and will he perform it? Our confidence or otherwise is in him; and it may be shown that the confidence rests very much more upon his character, which is the essential thing, than upon his mere ability, which is the accidental thing. We never really trouble over promises whose fulfilment circumstances may prevent. We feel the bitterness of broken promises when the failure reveals the weak will, or the unsound character of those in whom we have trusted. "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

II GOD"S PROMISES. GAIN THE INFINITE VALUE OF BEING FROM THE DIVINE PROMISE-MAKER. This is David"s point of assurance, "Thou art God," and thou "hast promised," therefore in thy promise I put absolute and perfect confidence. And what is gathered up in this simple but most comprehensive expression, "Thou art God" I

1. "Thou art God" who hast been faithful. So the saints of all the ages testify. So David himself could both feel and say.

2. "Thou art God," and as God thou must be faithful. Show what is necessarily included in the very idea of God, and that faithfulness is absolutely essential. If we could show one broken Divine promise, we would dethrone God and make him take rank with fallible man. "Hath he spoken, and shall he not do it?

3. We may advance to a higher region, and say, "Thou art God" who, in giving Christ, hast so kept the great promise as to assure all other promises. St. Paul forcibly argues, "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall ha not with him also freely give us all things?". (Rom_8:32)

Then we may set forth how God"s promises cover and hallow all our earthly life, coming into precise adaptation to all our infinitely varying circumstances and needs. And so we may walk and work in the light and cheerful joy of this confidence all are trustworthy; all will gain wise and gracious fulfilment, since "he is faithful that promised," and he speaks calmly over our life"s tumult, saying, "Be still, and know that I am God.

R.T.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻattâh (“now”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “now” (ʻattâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Titus 1:2, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. «וַתְּדַבֵּר֙» is a Piel Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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