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1 Chronicles 17:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are on the earth. "

1 Chronicles 17:8

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6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘The LORD of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.

8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,

10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.

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2 Samuel 7:9

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"I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth."

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"You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me."

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"You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me."

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"Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”"

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John 17:12

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"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled."

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"“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations."

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1 Chronicles 17:1

"When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of the LORD’s covenant is in a tent.”"

1 Chronicles 17:2

"Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”"

1 Chronicles 17:3

"That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,"

1 Chronicles 17:4

"“Go and tell David my servant, ‘The LORD says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;"

1 Chronicles 17:5

"for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another."

1 Chronicles 17:6

"In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’"

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