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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 114 times in 97 verses in '1Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ch 1:34–1Ch 17:24)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:34 - Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:43 - Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king of the sons of Israel H3478 reigned. Bela was the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:1 - These are the sons of Israel: H3478 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:7 - The [fn]son of Carmi was [fn]Achar, the troubler of Israel, H3478 who violated the ban.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:10 - Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, H3478 saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:1 - Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel H3478 (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; H3478 so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:3 - the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel H3478 were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:17 - All of these were enrolled in the genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:26 - So the God of Israel H3478 stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of [fn]Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:38 - the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:49 - But Aaron and his sons [fn]offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, H3478 according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - So the sons of Israel H3478 gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:29 - and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel H3478 was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. H3478 And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - Now the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, H3478 the priests, the Levites and the [fn]temple servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel; H3478 and the men of Israel H3478 fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - When all the men of Israel H3478 who were in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:1 - Then all Israel H3478 gathered to David at Hebron [fn]and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2 - “In times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led out and brought in Israel; H3478 and the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall shepherd My people Israel, H3478 and you shall be prince over My people Israel.’” H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:3 - So all the elders of Israel H3478 came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, H3478 according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:4 - Then David and all Israel H3478 went to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10 - Now these are the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, H3478 to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:32 - Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel H3478 should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:38 - All these, being men of war who could draw up in battle formation, came to Hebron with a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; H3478 and all the rest also of Israel H3478 were of one mind to make David king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - David said to all the assembly of Israel, H3478 “If it seems good to you, and if it is from the LORD our God, let us send everywhere to our kinsmen who remain in all the land of Israel, H3478 also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, that they may meet with us;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David assembled all Israel H3478 together, from the Shihor of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:6 - David and all Israel H3478 went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, the LORD who is enthroned above the cherubim, where His name is called.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - David and all Israel H3478 were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2 - And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, H3478 and that his kingdom was highly exalted, for the sake of His people Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:8 - When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, H3478 all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - And David assembled all Israel H3478 at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place which he had prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel H3478 to the place that I have prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:14 - So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:25 - So it was David, with the elders of Israel H3478 and the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - Thus all Israel H3478 brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:3 - He distributed to everyone of Israel, H3478 both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread and a portion of meat and a raisin cake.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:4 - He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:13 - O seed of Israel H3478 His servant,
Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:17 - He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel H3478 as an everlasting covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:36 - Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478
From everlasting even to everlasting.
Then all the people said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:40 - to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which He commanded Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:5 - for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel H3478 to this day, but I have [fn]gone from tent to tent and from one dwelling place to another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6 - “In all places where I have walked with all Israel, H3478 have I spoken a word with any of the judges of Israel, H3478 whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built for Me a house of cedar?’”’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - “I will appoint a place for My people Israel, H3478 and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and not be moved again; and the [fn]wicked will not waste them anymore as formerly,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. H3478 And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - “And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, H3478 whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:22 - “For Your people Israel H3478 You made Your own people forever, and You, O LORD, became their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:24 - “Let Your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, H3478 even a God to Israel; H3478 and the house of David Your servant is established before You.’

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