1 Chronicles 17:21
Good News Translation
There is no other nation on earth like Israel, whom you rescued from slavery to make them your own people. The great and wonderful things you did for them spread your fame throughout the world. You rescued your people from Egypt and drove out other nations as your people advanced.

New Revised Standard Version
Who is like your people Israel, one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and terrible things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

Contemporary English Version
And there is no other nation on earth like Israel, the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so that your people could live here.

New American Bible
“Is there, like your people Israel, whom you redeemed from Egypt, another nation on earth whom a god went to redeem as his people? You won for yourself a name for great and awesome deeds by driving out the nations before your people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people Israel, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by his greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he had delivered out of Egypt?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people Israel, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by his greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he had delivered out of Egypt?

what one

Deuteronomy 4:7,32-34 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:26-29 There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither. . . .

Psalm 147:20 He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

redeem

Exodus 3:7,8 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; . . .

Exodus 19:4-6 You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:15 Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.

Psalm 77:15 With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

Psalm 107:2 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.

Psalm 111:9 He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

make thee

Nehemiah 9:10 And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.

Isaiah 48:9 For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Isaiah 63:12 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.

Ezekiel 20:9,10 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. . . .

greatness

Deuteronomy 4:34 If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.

Psalm 56:5 All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.

Psalm 66:3-7 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. . . .

Psalm 114:3-8 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. . . .

Isaiah 64:3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

by driving

Deuteronomy 7:1,2 When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou: . . .

Joshua 10:42 And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.

Joshua 21:43-45 And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it. . . .

Joshua 24:11,12 And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands. . . .

Psalm 44:2,3 We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old. . . .

Context
David's Prayer of Thanksgiving
20O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears. 21For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people Israel, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by his greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he had delivered out of Egypt?22And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.…
Cross References
Exodus 6:6
Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.

1 Chronicles 17:20
O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.

1 Chronicles 17:22
And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.

Jeremiah 32:21
And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror.

1 Chronicles 17:20
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