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1 Chronicles 17:21

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What does 1 Chronicles 17:21 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out of Egypt?” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out of Egypt?
1 Chronicles 17:21 — American Standard Version

Context — 1 Chronicles 17

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
18What can David [say] yet more unto thee concerning the honor which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
19O Jehovah, for thy servant`s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.
20O Jehovah, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out of Egypt?
22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
23And now, O Jehovah, let the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as thou hast spoken.
24And let thy name be established and magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David thy servant is established before thee.
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What do historical commentaries say?

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“what one: Deu 4:7, Deu 4:32-34, Deu 33:26-29; Psa 147:20 redeem: Exo 3:7, Exo 3:8, Exo 19:4-6; Deu 15:15; Psa 77:15, Psa 107:2, Psa 111:9; Isa 63:9; Tit 2:14 make thee: Neh 9:10; Isa 48:9, Isa 63:12; Eze 20:9, Eze 20:10 greatness: Deu 4:34; Psa 65:5, Psa 66:3-7, Psa 114:3-8; Isa 64:3 by driving: Deu 7:1, Deu 7:2; Jos 10:42, Jos 21:43-45, Jos 24:11, Jos 24:12; Psa 44:2, Psa 44:3 1 Chronicles 17:22”
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Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · Commentary on the Old Testament · 19th-century historical commentary
“The combining of ונוראות גּדלּות with שׁם לך לשׂוּם as one sentence, "to make Thee a name with great and fearful deeds," is made clearer in 2nd Samuel by the interpolation of לכם ולעשׂות, "and for you doing great and fearful things." This explanation, however, does not justify us in supposing that ולעשׂות has been dropped out of the Chronicle. The words ונוראות גּדלּות are either to be subordinated in a loose connection to the clause, to define the way in which God has made Himself a name (cf. Ew. 283), or connected with שׂוּם in a pregnant sense: "to make Thee a name, (doing) great and fearful things." But, on the other hand, the converse expression in Samuel, "fearful things for Thy land,…”
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