New Living Translation
1 Chronicles 17:20
20“O Lord, there is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!
1 Chronicles 17:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- New International Version (NIV)“There is no one like you, Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
- English Standard Version (ESV)There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- New King James Version (NKJV)O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Context of 1 Chronicles 17:20
18“What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like. 19For the sake of your servant, O Lord, and according to your will, you have done all these great things and have made them known. “O Lord, there is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you! 21What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations that stood in their way. 22You chose Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 171 Chronicles 17:20 word by word
יְהוָה֙ אֵ֣ין כָּמ֔וֹךָ וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים זוּלָתֶ֑ךָ בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמַ֖עְנוּ בְּאָזְנֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 17:20
- Exodus 15:11“Who is like you among the gods, O Lord— glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders?
- Exodus 18:11I know now that the Lord is greater than all other gods, because he rescued his people from the oppression of the proud Egyptians.”
- Deuteronomy 3:24‘O Sovereign Lord, you have only begun to show your greatness and the strength of your hand to me, your servant. Is there any god in heaven or on earth who can perform such great and mighty deeds as you do?
- Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.
- Psalms 86:8No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do!
- Psalms 89:6For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord? What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord?
- Isaiah 40:18To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him?
- Jeremiah 10:6Lord, there is no one like you! For you are great, and your name is full of power.
- Ephesians 3:20Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
- Deuteronomy 4:35“He showed you these things so you would know that the Lord is God and there is no other.
- 1 Samuel 2:2No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
- Isaiah 43:10“But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord. “You are my servant. You have been chosen to know me, believe in me, and understand that I alone am God. There is no other God— there never has been, and there never will be.
- Isaiah 44:6This is what the Lord says—Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: “I am the First and the Last; there is no other God.
- Isaiah 45:5I am the Lord; there is no other God. I have equipped you for battle, though you don’t even know me,
- Psalms 44:1O God, we have heard it with our own ears— our ancestors have told us of all you did in their day, in days long ago:
- Psalms 78:3stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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