1 Chronicles 17:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies before you, and I will make for you a name like the name of the great ones of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.

Common English Bible

⁸ I’ve been with you wherever you’ve gone. I’ve eliminated all your enemies before you. Now I will make your name great—like the name of the greatest people on earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And I have been with you wherever you have gone. And I have slain all your enemies before you, and I have made a name for you like one of the great ones who are celebrated upon the earth.

1 Chronicles 17:8 Cross References

1 Chronicles 17:2

Nathan said to David, “Do all that you have in mind, for God is with you.”

1 Samuel 18:14

David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.

Psalm 75:7

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Psalm 71:21

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

Psalm 46:7

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

1 Samuel 18:28

But when Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that Saul’s daughter Michal loved him,

Genesis 28:15

Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Luke 1:52

He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly;

Psalm 18:1

I love you, O Lord, my strength.

Ezra 4:20

Jerusalem has had mighty kings who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

1 Chronicles 17:17

And even this was a small thing in your sight, O God; you have also spoken of your servant’s house into the distant future. You regard me as someone of high rank, O Lord God!

2 Samuel 22:1

David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 8:8

From Betah and from Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great amount of bronze.

2 Samuel 8:6

Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 7:9

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

1 Samuel 26:10

David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

Psalm 46:11

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

1 Chronicles 17:7

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel,

1 Chronicles 17:9

I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place and be disturbed no more, and evildoers shall wear them down no more, as they did formerly,

1 Chronicles 14:17

The fame of David went out into all lands, and the Lord brought the fear of him on all nations.