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1 Chronicles 17:21

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17:21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation33 in the earth? Their God34 went to claim35 a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds36 when you drove out37 nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.38

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Footnotes

  1. 33 Heb “a nation, one.”
  2. 34 Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  3. 35 Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”
  4. 36 Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”
  5. 37 Heb “to drive out.”
  6. 38 Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And who is like your people Israel? God, you came to one nation on earth to redeem a people for yourself, to make a name for yourself through great and awesome works by driving out nations before your people you redeemed from Egypt.

NLTNew Living Translation

What 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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And who is like your people Israel, the one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself as a people, to establish for you a reputation for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

KJV 1900King James Version

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?